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  -