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Corrigendum to: China's Sex Ratio and Crime: Behavioural Change or Financial Necessity?

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  • Lisa Cameron
  • Xin Meng
  • Dandan Zhang

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This article uses survey and experimental data from prison inmates and comparable non-inmates to examine the drivers of rising criminality in China. We find that China's high sex ratios are associated with greater risk-taking, greater impatience and greater neuroticism amongst males. These underlying behavioural impacts explain some part of the increase in criminality. The primary avenue through which the sex ratio increases crime, however, is the direct pressure on men to appear financially attractive in order to find a partner in the marriage market. These marriage market pressures result in a higher propensity to commit financially rewarding crimes.
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  • Lisa Cameron & Xin Meng & Dandan Zhang, 2021. "Corrigendum to: China's Sex Ratio and Crime: Behavioural Change or Financial Necessity?," The Economic Journal, Royal Economic Society, vol. 131(633), pages 520-523.
    • Handle: RePEc:oup:econjl:v:131:y:2021:i:633:p:520-523.
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    1. Nikolova, Milena & Popova, Olga & Otrachshenko, Vladimir, 2022. "Stalin and the origins of mistrust," Journal of Public Economics, Elsevier, vol. 208(C).
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    3. Xing, Chunbing & Sun, Yan, 2019. "Economic Opportunities and Gender Equity: The Migration and Education Decisions of Young Women from Rural China," IZA Discussion Papers 12311, Institute of Labor Economics (IZA).
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    JEL classification:

    • O12 - Economic Development, Innovation, Technological Change, and Growth - - Economic Development - - - Microeconomic Analyses of Economic Development
    • J12 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Demographic Economics - - - Marriage; Marital Dissolution; Family Structure

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