Civil War, Marriage Ban and Sex Ratio

Too Many Men, Too-Short Lives

“…We followed the method proposed by Chang (2013) to impute the sex ratios in the marriage market. We briefly describe the method below.…”

“…We briefly describe the method below. Readers interested in more details should reference Chang (2013) directly.…”

“…Since some of our study cohorts reached age 30 before 1969, we had to impute the county sex ratios to include those soldiers, which accounted for about 40% of the observations. We followed the method proposed by Chang (2013), using the population data administered by the Department of Household Registration under the Ministry of the Interior.…”

Immigration and inequality: Analysis of Mainland Chinese spouses during the early stages of their time in Taiwan

“…Since then, numerous restrictions on travel to Mainland China have been lifted. The first intermarriages between Mainland Chinese and Taiwanese after the civil war involved veterans who took advantage of renewed cross‐strait travel to look for a spouse in Mainland China (Chang, 2013). 5 The rapid economic growth of Taiwan in the 1980s led to Taiwanese women becoming more economically independent; correspondingly, the traditional gendered practice of men preferring to marry less wealthy or educated women led to more Taiwanese men (primarily businessmen or those with lower SES) marrying Mainland Chinese women (Yang & Liu, 2014), primarily through their personal contacts or through marriage agencies.…”