Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/35908 
Year of Publication: 
2009
Series/Report no.: 
IZA Discussion Papers No. 4243
Publisher: 
Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA), Bonn
Abstract: 
This paper provides non-parametric estimates of the total effects of famine in China on marital behavior of famine affected cohorts in rural areas of Sichuan and Anhui. The reduced form estimates incorporate general equilibrium and heterogeneous treatment effects, two important components of equilibrium marital behavior. Next the paper uses a structural model of the marriage market to decomposed observed marital outcomes into quantity and quality effects. The structural estimates show that the famine reduced the marital attractiveness of the famine-born cohort. The conclusion is that the small observed changes in marriage rates of the famine born cohort are due to a significant decline in marital attractiveness.
Subjects: 
Marriage market
famine
JEL: 
J12
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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