China and some other countries have experienced unbalanced sex ratios in the marriage market, which triggers intense … competition and pressure to get married. This paper utilizes two household longitudinal datasets from rural China – a secondary … are calculated using a 1‰ sample of the 2000 China Population Census. Strikingly, paternal smoking and alcohol use are …

This study examines the gender-differentiated effects of improved land property rights on labor reallocation using … quasi-exogenous variation in the timing of the implementation of the Rural Land Contracting Law in China, which allows … sector and into non-agricultural sectors following the land reform, women lag behind men, with a noticeable gender gap in …

households in rural China. Employing nationally representative survey data, empirical evidence indicates that the gender …Household size in rural China has seen a shrinking trend in the past decades. This has been attributed to the one …-child policy, low fertility rates, and population migration under rapid urbanization. This paper suggests that the gender imbalance …

This study examined the gender-differentiated effects of improved land property rights on labor reallocation using … quasi-exogenous variation in the timing of the implementation of the Rural Land Contracting Law in China, which allows … sector and into non-agricultural sectors following the land reform, women lag behind men, with a noticeable gender gap in the …