Gender imbalance and marriage squeeze in China /

"This book presents a comprehensive analysis of China's unbalanced sex ratio at birth and marriage market, and the implications of these phenomena for population development and families. China's persistently high sex ratio at birth (SRB) since the early 1980s has led to serious gende...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors:	Jiang, Quanbao, 1976- (Author), Li, Shuzhuo, 1963- (Author)
Corporate Author:	Taylor & Francis
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2025.
Series:	China perspectives series.
Subjects:	Sex distribution (Demography) > China. Social structure > China. Sex ratio > China. Marriage > China. Répartition par sexe (Démographie) > Chine. Structure sociale > Chine. Mariage > Chine. SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / Marriage & Family BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Economics / General Electronic books.
Online Access:	Connect to the full text of this electronic book

Table of Contents:

Introduction
The data quality of SRB
Estimation of SRB and abortion rate
The changing trend of SRB
Change in China's SRB: A dynamic spatial panel approach
A decomposition of Changes in SRB by Birth Order
A Decomposition of Change in China's SRB at the Provincial Level
Missing Girls from 1980-2010
Male surplus
China's high SRB and population development
Marriage Squeeze in China's Future
Marriage Squeeze, Never-Married Proportion and Mean Age at First Marriage
The decomposition of marriage squeeze into age and sex structure
The life cycle of families of unmarried older men.