@article{Ouyang:302733,
      recid = {302733},
      author = {Ouyang, Difei and Yuan, Weidi and Zi, Yuan},
      title = {Empowered young women trade liberalization and women’s  family decisions in china},
      publisher = {Centre for Economic Policy Research},
      address = {London. 2023},
      number = {BOOK},
      series = {Discussion paper / Centre for Economic Policy Research ;  17607. International trade and regional economics},
      pages = {59 pages},
      year = {2023},
      abstract = {Do trade-induced labor market opportunities affect women's  marriage and fertility decisions? Exploiting regional  variation in the exposure to the U.S. granting of Permanent  Normal Trade Relations (PNTR), we find that more exposed  Chinese prefectures experience a relative increase in the  fraction of unmarried young women. This relative increase  is due to young women delaying their first marriage and  more married women choosing to divorce. The share of young  women with children, as a result of changed marriage  decisions, also experiences a relative decline in more  exposed areas. We show that these shifts in family  decisions coincide with a trade-induced increase in female  workforce participation and reallocation of women relative  to men to the service sector, where wages are higher.},
      url = {http://repository.graduateinstitute.ch/record/302733},
}