TY - GEN AB - 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. AU - Ouyang, Difei AU - Yuan, Weidi AU - Zi, Yuan CY - London DA - 2023 DA - 2023 ET - Version 3 ID - 302733 KW - Gender, Class, Race and Intersectionality KW - Trade and Work L1 - https://repository.graduateinstitute.ch/record/302733/files/DP17607.pdf L2 - https://repository.graduateinstitute.ch/record/302733/files/DP17607.pdf L4 - https://repository.graduateinstitute.ch/record/302733/files/DP17607.pdf LK - https://repository.graduateinstitute.ch/record/302733/files/DP17607.pdf N2 - 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. PB - Centre for Economic Policy Research PP - London PY - 2023 PY - 2023 T1 - Empowered young womentrade liberalization and women’s family decisions in china TI - Empowered young womentrade liberalization and women’s family decisions in china UR - https://repository.graduateinstitute.ch/record/302733/files/DP17607.pdf Y1 - 2023 ER -