Place-based policies, rural employment, and intra-household resources allocation: Evidence from China’s economic zones

Chuanmin Zhao and Xi Qu

Journal of Development Economics, 2024, vol. 167, issue C

Abstract: Using both reduced-form methods and structural modeling, we identify the relationship between place-based policies and individual bargaining power in rural China. Exposure to economic zones significantly increases women’s resource shares and reduces within-household inequality. The results are mainly driven by economic zones with female-dominated industries and women’s sectoral reallocation from agricultural to non-agriculture employment. Moreover, we analyze the impact of place-based policies on children’s education and find the dropout probability of children decreases by more than 4% when households live near EZs and girls benefit more from women’s bargaining power compared with boys.

Keywords: Place-based policy; Economic zone; Resource share; Rural employment; Intra-household inequality (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: C31 D12 D13 J21 O25 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2024
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DOI: 10.1016/j.jdeveco.2023.103210

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