Bride Drain: An Unintended Consequence of China's Urban-rural Divide
Bride Drain: An Unintended Consequence of China's Urban-rural Divide
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新娘外流：中国城乡差距的意外后果
DOI：
10.1016/j.labeco.2019.04.003
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发表时间：
2019
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影响因子：
2.4
通讯作者：
Min Qiang Zhao
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作者：
Lei Meng;Min Qiang Zhao
本文在中国的制度和文化背景下研究了农村人口向城市迁移对农村婚姻市场结果的影响。本文利用自编和常用的调查数据以及人口普查数据，发现社区层面的农村女性流动在农村婚姻市场上产生了新娘流失效应：除了传统的性别比失衡渠道外，还对农村男性的结婚可能性产生了负面影响。我们没有发现一个相等的新郎流失效应的证据：在社区一级的男性移民率的增加，农村妇女的婚姻可能性没有负面影响。工具变量估计被用来解决内分泌问题。我们的研究结果表明，中国的城乡差距有一个意想不到的，长期的后果。
This paper studies the impact of rural-urban migration on rural marriage market outcomes within China's institutional and cultural context. Using self-collected and commonly used survey data, as well as Population Census, we find that community-level rural female migration produces a bride drain effect in the rural marriage market: it exerts a negative impact on the marriage likelihood of rural men in addition to the traditional channel of sex ratio imbalance. We find no evidence for an equivalent groom drain effect: the increase in men's migration rate at community level has no negative effect on the marriage likelihood of rural women. Instrumental variable estimation is used to address the endogeneity concern. Our results suggest that China's urban-rural divide has an unintended, long-lasting consequence.