Recent Marriage and Labor Supply Pattern of Young Chinese Women

Yoon Jae Ro (yjro@kiep.go.kr) and Jeonghwan Yun (jhyun@kiep.go.kr)
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Yoon Jae Ro: KOREA INSTITUTE FOR INTERNATIONAL ECONOMIC POLICY (KIEP), Postal: [30147] Building C, Sejong National Research Complexa, 370, Sicheong-daero, Sejong-si, Korea, https://www.kiep.go.kr/eng/
Jeonghwan Yun: KOREA INSTITUTE FOR INTERNATIONAL ECONOMIC POLICY (KIEP), Postal: [30147] Building C, Sejong National Research Complexa, 370, Sicheong-daero, Sejong-si, Korea, https://www.kiep.go.kr/eng/

No 22-41, World Economy Brief from Korea Institute for International Economic Policy

Abstract: In this paper, we examine the impact of a sibling gender on educational attainment, earnings, family formation for a recent cohort of women in China. Family characteristics such as number of siblings, sibling gender composition, and parents’ characteristics may play an important role in children’s life as the presence of a sibling can affect parents’ treatment of the remaining children. Especially male siblings can affect children’s outcome through various pathways as male sibling may pull parental investment of resources away from girls, because boys may be seen as the “higher return” investment (Becker, 1991). We investigate the effect of having a (male) sibling on a daughter by exploiting the change in fertility trend in China induced by the One Child Policy (OCP).

Keywords: China; One Child Policy; Marriage; Labor Market (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 7 pages
Date: 2022-09-30
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