Arbeitspapier

Divorce, Abortion and Children's Sex Ratio: The Impact of Divorce Reform in China

This paper explores how the relative circumstances of men and women following marital dissolution affect sex-selection behavior within marriages. China's 2001 divorce reform liberalized divorce in favor of women and secured women's property rights after separation. We use this improvement in women's bargaining power in marriage for a regression discontinuity analysis of the demand for sex-selective abortions. We show that the increase in women's bargaining power reduces the propensity to have a son after a firstborn daughter by 8.9 percentage points. We also find that the effect is larger for women with higher health risks.

Sprache
Englisch

Erschienen in
Series: IZA Discussion Papers ; No. 8230

Klassifikation
Wirtschaft
Household Production and Intrahousehold Allocation
Marriage; Marital Dissolution; Family Structure; Domestic Abuse
Fertility; Family Planning; Child Care; Children; Youth
Economics of Gender; Non-labor Discrimination
Thema
gender inequality
intra-household allocation
divorce law

Ereignis
Geistige Schöpfung
(wer)
Sun, Ang
Zhao, Yaohui
Ereignis
Veröffentlichung
(wer)
Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA)
(wo)
Bonn
(wann)
2014

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Objekttyp

  • Arbeitspapier

Beteiligte

  • Sun, Ang
  • Zhao, Yaohui
  • Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA)

Entstanden

  • 2014

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