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Love, Life, and "Leftover Ladies" in Urban China: Marriage Matching under Massive Social Changes
APL
(Ajiken
Power
Lunch)
is
a
lunchtime
workshop
open
to
public,
including
IDE
staffs,
visiting
research
fellows,
IDEAS
students,
outside
researchers
and
graduate
students.
This
workshop
provides
a
platform
for
presentation
of
any
work
in
progress
where
we
can
discuss
in
either
English
or
Japanese.
Those
who
would
attend
a
seminar
are
asked
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announce
yourself
to
receptionists
on
your
arrival
at
the
IDE
and
to
obtain
APL
Organizers'
signature
on
your
admission
card
after
the
seminar.
Date&time:
February 10, 2017. (Friday) 10:30-12:00
Venue:
Theme:
Love, Life, and "Leftover Ladies" in Urban China: Marriage Matching under Massive Social Changes
Abstract
The
seminar
is
to
perform
a
marriage
duology
in
the
context
of
urban
Chinese
"modern-traditional
mosaic"
where
massive
social
changes
towards
westernized
lifestyle
meet
conventional
perception
on
women.
The
research
exploits
two
nationally
representative
household
datasets
over
the
period
2008-2012
and
four
waves
of
the
Census
between
1982
and
2010.
The
overture,
entitled
"Love,
Life,
and
'Leftover
Ladies'
in
Urban
China",
addresses
how
women's
pre-marital
human
capital
affects
their
marriage
formation;
and
the
sequel,
entitled
"A
House
Is
Forever?
Housing,
Mating
and
Mating
Quality",
addresses
dynamically
how
men's
pre-marital
asset
holdings
affect
women's
matching
strategy
and
two
post-marriage
outcomes:
matching
quality
in
terms
of
spousal
education,
and
marriage
stability.
Different
from
the
college
marital
premium
found
in
the
U.S.,
we
find
"marital
college-discount"
for
urban
women:
pre-marital
college
education
reduces
their
probabilities
of
marriage
by
2.88%-3.6%
and
a
postgraduate
degree
further
oppresses
it
by
8.4%-10.4%.
Women's
traits
such
as
beauty,
grit,
academic
self-efficacy,
sociality
and
trustiness
play
varied
roles
when
their
pre-marital
education
is
also
taken
into
account.
In
particular,
beauty
is
only
"conditionally"
good
in
terms
of
facilitating
marriage
formation
for
those
without
higher
education.
Counterfactual
simulations
show
that
marriage
is
likely
to
be
forgone
rather
than
delayed
for
those
"Golden
Miss"
with
higher
education.
There
is
suggestive
evidence
that
patriarchy
still
prevails.
Dynamically,
neither
men's
ownership
nor
the
price
of
pre-marital
residential
property
necessarily
brings
a
high
probability
of
matching
or
a
well-educated
spouse,
but
indeed
increases
satisfaction
within
marriage.
Men's
pre-marital
house
ownership
shortened
marital
duration.
Not
listing
the
wife's
name
on
the
deed
is
likely
to
drive
these
results.
Better
housing
in
terms
of
higher
prices,
however,
stabilises
the
relationship.
When
controlling
for
men's
pre-marital
house
ownership
and
prices,
their
anthropometric
and
facial
attractiveness
determine
the
probability
of
getting
married;
and
women
make
assortative
along
men's
education
as
well
as
their
mother-in-law's
education
and
parents-in-law's
social
class.
Speaker:
Professor Jing You (Renmin University of China, VRF of IDE-JETRO, and Visiting Fellow of University of Cambridge)
Chair:
Tomohiro MACHIKITA
Languages:
English
IMAI Kohei E-mail:kohei_imai

TSUBURA Machiko E-mail:Machiko_Tsubura

ASUYAMA Yoko E-mail:yoko_asuyama
