Sex ratios and marital matching outcomes in the Chinese marriage market

Yuxin Yao; Min Zhang; Yixian Li

doi:10.1016/j.econlet.2022.110927

Sex ratios and marital matching outcomes in the Chinese marriage market

Yuxin Yao
, Min Zhang^*
, Yixian Li

^*Corresponding author for this work

School of Economics and Management

East China Normal University

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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.

Original language	English
Article number	110927
Journal	Economics Letters
Volume	222
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/j.econlet.2022.110927
State	Published - Jan 2023

Keywords

Chinese economy
Marital matching
Sex ratios

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