Sex ratios and the red dragon: using the Chinese Communist Revolution to explore the effect of the sex ratio on women and children in Taiwan

被引：32
作者：
Francis, Andrew M. [1 ]
机构：
[1] Emory Univ, Dept Econ, Atlanta, GA 30322 USA
来源：
JOURNAL OF POPULATION ECONOMICS | 2011年 / 24卷 / 03期
关键词：
Sex ratios; Marriage market; Intrahousehold bargaining; MARRIAGE SQUEEZE INTERPRETATION; INTRAHOUSEHOLD ALLOCATION; DOWRY INFLATION; MISSING WOMEN; SOUTH-AFRICA; PREFERENCES; RESOURCES; FERTILITY; WELFARE; INDIA;
D O I：
10.1007/s00148-009-0262-7
中图分类号：
C921 [人口统计学];
学科分类号：
摘要：
In 1949, Mao Zedong and the People's Liberation Army defeated the Chinese Nationalist Army. Hundreds of thousands of mainland Chinese fled to the island of Taiwan. In this paper, I use the demographic consequences of the Chinese Communist Revolution and subsequent Taiwanese military policy to identify the effect of the marriage market sex ratio on women and children in Taiwan. I find that as the sex ratio rises, the bride price relative to the dowry increases, the fraction of female children in a family increases, the total number of children in a family decreases, and human capital investments in children increase.
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页码：813 / 837
页数：25
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