Take My Mother-in-law…Please!

Yi Zhang ()

Journal of Family and Economic Issues, 2015, vol. 36, issue 4, 633-645

Abstract: This paper investigated the effect of the wife’s bargaining power on the decision about intergenerational co-residence in China (i.e., whether she lived with the husband’s mother or not). Using the China Health and Nutrition Survey data from 2000, this paper found evidence in favor of women’s empowerment: the increase in women’s bargaining power. Specifically, greater education and a more prestigious occupation for women, relative to their husbands’, significantly reduced the probability of living with their mothers-in-law. The effect was particularly strong in urban areas. Copyright Springer Science+Business Media New York 2015

Keywords: Intergenerational co-residence; Living arrangement; Women’s bargaining power; China (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2015
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