Sex ratios and marital matching outcomes in the Chinese marriage market

Yuxin Yao, Min Zhang and Yixian Li

Economics Letters, 2023, vol. 222, issue C

Abstract: This paper examines how a male-biased sex ratio affects marital matching outcomes by using the 2015 Chinese mini-census data. Based on a Heckit approach and an instrumental variable approach, we find that when females are scarce, males marry females from a lower social class, i.e., less educated or with the rural Hukou. In addition, males are more likely to find spouses who are younger than themselves, born in a different province, and of a different ethnicity.

Keywords: Sex ratios; Marital matching; Chinese economy (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: J11 J12 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2023
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DOI: 10.1016/j.econlet.2022.110927

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