China's Sex Ratio and Crime: Behavioral Change or Financial Necessity?
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- Lisa Cameron & Xin Meng & Dandan Zhang, 2019. "China's Sex Ratio and Crime: Behavioural Change or Financial Necessity?," Economic Journal, Royal Economic Society, vol. 129(618), pages 790-820.
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Keywords
crime; marriage markets; risk-taking; time preferences; sex-ratio; one child policy; China;All these keywords.
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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This paper has been announced in the following NEP Reports:- NEP-CNA-2016-03-10 (China)
- NEP-LAW-2016-03-10 (Law & Economics)
- NEP-TRA-2016-03-10 (Transition Economics)
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