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Sex Imbalance, Marital Matching and Intra-household Bargaining: Evidence from China

作者:wangyongqin 阅读: 发布:2014-11-18
期刊 CHINA ECONOMIC REVIEW 刊号 Available online 12 November 2014
作者 Julan Dua, Yongqin Wangb, Yan Zhangb 论文链接
【期      刊】 CHINA ECONOMIC REVIEW
【出版信息】 出版信息
【刊      号】 Available online 12 November 2014
【作      者】 Julan Dua, Yongqin Wangb, Yan Zhangb
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【关  键 词】 Sex Imbalance, Female Hypergamy, Bargaining Power, Sorting
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【摘      要】

This paper studies the effects of sex imbalance on matching patterns in China’s marriage markets. We hypothesize that the economic inequality caused by economic liberalization, together with sex imbalance, will lead to women’s hypergamy (marrying up). Employing CGSS data, our empirical findings support the hypothesis. We also establish that sex imbalance enhances the postnuptial bargaining power of the wife vis-à-vis the husband in intra-household resource allocation. The findings are robust to IV estimation and robustness checks.