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Women's education and marriage decisions: Evidence from China

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  • Xue Li
  • Hua Cheng

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The faster increase in education among women compared with men has been underexplored. Thus, using Chinese data, we evaluate the impacts of a plausibly exogenous increase in educational attainment on women's marriage decisions. An extra year of education does not change women's decision to marry and leads to a brief delay of 0.12 years in their marriage age on average, which is much smaller than the delay among men. Although more educated women and men both have improved labour market outcomes, which may have increased their patience, men experience larger income growth than women do. Moreover, declining physical attractiveness at least partly explains why the delay is less than 1 year. Overall, the results are more reliable after addressing the endogeneity issue.

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  • Xue Li & Hua Cheng, 2019. "Women's education and marriage decisions: Evidence from China," Pacific Economic Review, Wiley Blackwell, vol. 24(1), pages 92-112, February.
    • Handle: RePEc:bla:pacecr:v:24:y:2019:i:1:p:92-112
    DOI: 10.1111/1468-0106.12247
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    1. Guo, Rongxing & Yang, Kaizhong & Liu, Yuhui, 2020. "Explaining the human and cultural puzzles: A new development theory✰," Technological Forecasting and Social Change, Elsevier, vol. 155(C).
    2. Irina Miruna RADU, 2020. "CBSD – A Suitable Solution for Building a Centralized Educational Library of Software," Informatica Economica, Academy of Economic Studies - Bucharest, Romania, vol. 24(1), pages 75-86.

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