Missing Women and the Price of Tea in China: The Effect of Sex-Specific Earnings on Sex Imbalance

By Nancy Qian. 2008

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Subfields: Gender Studies, Safety Research

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Soil Endowments, Female Labor Force Participation and the Demographic Deficit of Women in India (2012, positive): “A low market value of female labor and limited female employment have been associated to fewer births of female children and greater survival differentials between boys and girls (Rosenzweig and Schultz 1982; Qian 2008).”
Did Trade Liberalization Help Women? the Case of Mexico in the 1990s (2010, neutral): “Furthermore, equity concerns aside, the effect of liberalization policies on gender outcomes may be of interest from the point of view of economic growth since there is now growing evidence that empowering women promotes education and better children’s outcomes (Duflo, 2000; Qian, 2008; Thomas, 1990”
Quantity-Quality and the One Child Policy: The Only-Child Disadvantage in School Enrollment in Rural China. NBER Working Paper No. 14973. (2009, background): “…data, or by comparing sex ratios for the same cohort at di¤erent ages have found that sex-selection mostly occurs at very young ages, which is consistent with the lack of prenatal gender revealing technology and tough government enforcement against infanticide (Qian, 2008; Zeng et. al., 1993).”
Labor market opportunities and women's decision making power within households (2016, neutral): “…way to understand the bargaining process, analyzing changes in who makes different decisions within households contributes 8Changes in girls’ health outcomes could also be the effect of more investment in daughters as the prospect of labor market participation improves for them (e.g. Qian 2008).”
Women's Inheritance Rights and Intergenerational Transmission of Resources in India (2013, neutral): “In China, higher female incomes following agricultural reforms increased the survival rates for girls (Qian 2008).”
The Competitive Saving Motive: Evidence from Rising Sex Ratios and Savings Rates in China (2009, background): “Furthermore, policy actions that improve the economic status of women could potentially reduce the sex ratio imbalance by reducing parental preference for sons (Qian 2008).”
Modern gender roles and agricultural history: the Neolithic inheritance (2015, positive): “…variation in suitability for growing tea and orchard cultivation across China with two post-Mao reforms that increased the value of planting tea and orchards relative to staple crops, Qian (2008) demonstrates that there is a positive, causal effect of women’s income on the survival rates of girls.”
Caution! Men not at work: Gender-specific labor market conditions and child maltreatment (2018, neutral): “In the next section, we provide further back3See, e.g. Blau, Kahn and Waldfogel (2000), Qian (2008), Aizer (2010), Schaller (2016), Page, Schaller and Simon (2017), Anderberg et al. (2016). ground on child maltreatment victimization and perpetration and describe prior studies estimating the effects…”
Destruction, Disinvestment, and Death: Economic and Human Losses Following Environmental Disaster (2013, neutral): “Infant mortality constitutes a sensitive3 measure of health itself as well as an indicator of general household well being.”