Mating competition and entrepreneurship

Chang, Simon; Zhang, Xiaobo

doi:10.1016/j.jebo.2015.05.004

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“…As the one-child generation enters the marriageable age, young men face a very competitive marriage market. In order to attract potential brides, families with sons choose to work harder, save more, and take on more risks, including exhibiting a higher propensity to be entrepreneurs (Wei and Zhang 2011a, b;Chang and Zhang 2015;Wei, Zhang, and Liu forthcoming). It is estimated that increasing marriage market competition due to sex ratio imbalances has contributed to about two percentage points of economic growth per year (Wei and Zhang 2011b).…”

Section: Sources Of China's Growth Since 1980 and The Moderation Of Gmentioning

confidence: 99%

From “Made in China” to “Innovated in China”: Necessity, Prospect, and Challenges

Wei

Xie

Zhang

2017

Journal of Economic Perspectives

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After more than three decades of high growth based on its low-wage advantage and relatively favorable demographics—in combination with market-oriented reforms and openness to the world economy—China is at a crossroads with a much higher wage and a shrinking work force. Future growth will depend, by necessity, more on the generation of increased productivity, and domestic innovation will play an important part in this. In this paper, we assess the likelihood that China can make the necessary transition. Using data on expenditure on research and development, and patent applications, receipts, and citations, we show that the Chinese economy has become increasingly innovative. We will argue that rising wages and expanding markets are among the important drivers of China's growth in innovation. On the other hand, we find evidence of resource misallocation in the innovation area: while state-owned firms receive more subsidies, private firms exhibit more innovation results. Innovation can presumably progress even faster if resource misallocation can be tackled.

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Section: Sources Of China's Growth Since 1980 and The Moderation Of Gmentioning

confidence: 99%

From “Made in China” to “Innovated in China”: Necessity, Prospect, and Challenges

Wei

Xie

Zhang

2017

Journal of Economic Perspectives

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“…As the one-child generation enters the marriageable age, young men face a very competitive marriage market. In order to attract potential brides, families with sons choose to work harder, save more, and take on more risks, including exhibiting a higher propensity to be entrepreneurs (Wei andZhang 2011a and2011b;Chang and Zhang 2015;Wei, Zhang, and Liu 2016). It is estimated that increasing marriage market competition due to sex ratio imbalances has contributed to about two percentage points of economic growth per year (Wei and Zhang 2011b).…”

Section: Sources Of China's Growth Since 1980 and The Moderation Of Gmentioning

confidence: 99%

From “Made in China” to “Innovated in China”: Necessity, Prospect, and Challenges

Wei¹,

Xie

Zhang

2016

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After more than three decades of high growth that was based on an exploration of its low-wage advantage and a relatively favorable demographic pattern in combination with market-oriented reforms and openness to the world economy, China is at a crossroad with a much higher wage and a shrinking work force. Future growth by necessity would have to depend more on its ability to generate productivity increase, and domestic innovation will be an important part of it. In this paper, we assess the likelihood that China can make the necessary transition. Using data on expenditure on research and development, and patent applications, receipts, and citations, we show that the Chinese economy has become increasingly innovative. In terms of drivers of innovation growth, we find that embracing expanded market opportunities in the world economy and responding to rising labor costs are two leading contributing factors. On the other hand, we find evidence of resource misallocation in the innovation area: while state-owned firms receive more subsidies, private firms exhibit more innovation results. Innovation can presumably progress even faster if resource misallocation can be tackled.

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“…Researchers have noted that today, the phenomenon of "purchase a marriage house", "adding dowry" and "preparing bride price" for marriage have become a rigid requirement for parents [49]. To fulfill these requirements, parents tend to make material preparations in advance [44,45], such as saving more money by reducing consumption or entrepreneurship [22,31,44,45,50,51].…”

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“…Based on this purpose, it is not appropriate to use housing price to measure competitive saving motive. Second, although some scholars have used gender imbalance as the research background, and explored the impact of competitive saving motive on consumption, savings and entrepreneurship [22,44,45,51], they merely explained the relationship between competitive saving motive and various dependent variables from the theoretical level, but did not use empirical data to support their research. This suggests that existing research lacks a measure of competitive saving motive.…”

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How does rising housing price affect the health of middle-aged and elderly people? The complementary mediators of social status seeking and competitive saving motive

2020

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Under the backdrop of China’s aging population and continuous rising housing price and base on theories pertaining to social status seeking, marriage matching and intergenerational family relationships, use the 2010 and 2014 CFPS national survey micro data, we examine the impact of rising housing price on the health of middle-aged and elderly people and the underlying mechanisms. Rising housing price has a significant negative impact on the health of middle-aged and elderly people, and this effect is also reflected in their physical health, mental acuity and emotional well-being. The internal mechanism is that social status seeking motivation plays a significant mediator role. Through further analysis, we find that competitive saving motive is another intermediate mechanism that causes rising housing price to affect the health of middle-aged and elderly people; it is complementary to the social status seeking motivation. What’s more, the mediation effect of the competitive saving motive is notably heterogeneous, as it exists only for middle-aged and elderly people with male or noncollege educated child but does not exist for those with female or college educated child.

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Mating competition and entrepreneurship

Abstract: Journal articleIFPRI3; ISIDSGDP

Cited by 22 publications

References 38 publications

From “Made in China” to “Innovated in China”: Necessity, Prospect, and Challenges

From “Made in China” to “Innovated in China”: Necessity, Prospect, and Challenges

From “Made in China” to “Innovated in China”: Necessity, Prospect, and Challenges

How does rising housing price affect the health of middle-aged and elderly people? The complementary mediators of social status seeking and competitive saving motive

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