What Will You Do If I Say ‘I Do’?: The Effect of the Sex Ratio on Time Use within Taiwanese Married Couples

Chang, Simon; Connelly, Rachel

doi:10.1007/s11113-016-9393-1

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“…In addition, some studies suggested the sex ratio as a vital factor to assess the empowerment of women in the marriage market [51]. Since the 1980s, the sex ratio at birth in China has become unbalanced, and the implementation of the one-child policy made this problem increasingly complicated.…”

Section: Region-varying Factorsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Sustainability of Regional Factors on the Gendered Division of Housework in China

Guan

Zuo

2021

Sustainability

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In China’s labor market, the traditional patterns of “male breadwinners, female housewives” have been changing noticeably, whereas such patterns remain unchanged in the household production field. This phenomenon greatly affects gender equality and social sustainability. Until now, most of the studies have focused on the attribution of micro-factors (e.g., individual income, education level, and time availability) to the formation of this pattern. However, the effect of macro-region factors (e.g., the regional economic development, population composition, employment, and gender norms) on the distribution of housework have been rarely studied. In this study, the data from the China General Social Survey (2015CGSS) and the China Genuine Progress Indicator Survey (2017CGPiS) of Beijing Normal University were comprehensively analyzed. On that basis, a gender norms index was first constructed to measure regional differences in gender concepts. Moreover, this study, by considering macro-region-varying factors, suggested that the synergetic effect between all of the mentioned factors could significantly impact the distribution of housework, especially in eastern China. Nevertheless, in western China, the effect of male gender norms on the distribution of housework is significantly more serious than that of female gender norms, which inspires the authors of this study to strengthen the male’s family consciousness education. All of the mentioned findings could help formulate region-differentiated policies and strategies to achieve more reasonably and sustainably distributed housework in China.

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Section: Region-varying Factorsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Sustainability of Regional Factors on the Gendered Division of Housework in China

Guan

Zuo

2021

Sustainability

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“…As for sex ratio effects on leisure, another prediction of Becker, they were recently tested in Taiwan by Chang et al (2016). They defined total work time as employment, commuting, and housework.…”

Section: Evidence On Sex Ratio Effectsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Marriage and Marriage Markets

Grossbard

2017

The Oxford Handbook of Women and the Economy

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Standard-Nutzungsbedingungen:Die Dokumente auf EconStor dürfen zu eigenen wissenschaftlichen Zwecken und zum Privatgebrauch gespeichert und kopiert werden.Sie dürfen die Dokumente nicht für öffentliche oder kommerzielle Zwecke vervielfältigen, öffentlich ausstellen, öffentlich zugänglich machen, vertreiben oder anderweitig nutzen.Sofern die Verfasser die Dokumente unter Open-Content-Lizenzen (insbesondere CC-Lizenzen) zur Verfügung gestellt haben sollten, gelten abweichend von diesen Nutzungsbedingungen die in der dort genannten Lizenz gewährten Nutzungsrechte. The Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) in Bonn is a local and virtual international research center and a place of communication between science, politics and business. IZA is an independent nonprofit organization supported by Deutsche Post Foundation. The center is associated with the University of Bonn and offers a stimulating research environment through its international network, workshops and conferences, data service, project support, research visits and doctoral program. IZA engages in (i) original and internationally competitive research in all fields of labor economics, (ii) development of policy concepts, and (iii) dissemination of research results and concepts to the interested public. Terms of use: Documents in D I S C U S S I O N P A P E R S E R I E S Marriage and Marriage MarketsIZA Discussion Papers often represent preliminary work and are circulated to encourage discussion. Citation of such a paper should account for its provisional character. A revised version may be available directly from the author.IZA Discussion Paper No. 10312 October 2016 ABSTRACT Marriage and Marriage MarketsThis paper reviews models of marriage, with special emphasis on how the sex ratio (the ratio of marriageable men to women) can help explain measurable outcomes such as marriage formation, intra-marriage distribution of consumption goods, savings, labor supply, leisure, type of relationship, divorce, and intermarriage. Predictions are based on Demand and Supply analyses by Becker and the author. Evidence in support of the predictions is reported, most of it based on recent literature.JEL Classification: E2, J11, J12, J16, J22, O15, R2

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“…Our findings also contribute to the literature on sex ratio imbalance in China. Most studies focus on the consequences of the sex ratio imbalance, such as its effects on saving (Du & Wei, 2013; Wei & Zhang, 2011b; Wei et al., 2017); entrepreneurship (Chang & Zhang, 2015; Wei & Zhang, 2011a); real exchange rate (Du & Wei, 2016); crime (Edlund et al., 2013); hypergamy (Du et al., 2014) and intrahousehold allocation (Chang et al., 2016; Du et al., 2014; Edlund et al., 2013; Porter, 2016, 2017). Particularly relevant to this study is Wei et al.…”

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Housing prices and son preference: Evidence from China’s housing reform

Guo

Wang

et al. 2021

Econ of Transit and Inst Chang

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Do high housing prices reduce the demand for sons? AsChinese parents need to acquire houses for their sons' marriage, high housing prices increase the cost of sons relative to daughters. We exploit China's housing reform in the 1990s as a natural experiment to identify the effect of housing prices on demand for sons. We find that housing prices have no effect on the probability of having a son at the first birth. High housing prices reduce the probability of having a son at the second birth, especially when the first-born is a daughter. A 10% increase in housing prices reduces the probability of having a son at the second birth by 0.78 percentage points. The findings remain robust when using aggregate prefecture-cohort data for the post-reform period.

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What Will You Do If I Say ‘I Do’?: The Effect of the Sex Ratio on Time Use within Taiwanese Married Couples

Cited by 4 publications

References 44 publications

Sustainability of Regional Factors on the Gendered Division of Housework in China

Sustainability of Regional Factors on the Gendered Division of Housework in China

Marriage and Marriage Markets

Housing prices and son preference: Evidence from China’s housing reform

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