TY  - RPRT
        AU  - Sun, Ang
AU  - Zhao, Yaohui
        TI  - Divorce, Abortion and Children's Sex Ratio: The Impact of Divorce Reform in China
        PY  - 2014/May/
        PB  - Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)
        CY  - Bonn
        T2  - IZA Discussion Paper
        IS  - 8230
        UR  - https://www.iza.org/index.php/publications/dp8230
        AB  - This paper explores how the relative circumstances of men and women following marital dissolution affect sex-selection behavior within marriages. China's 2001 divorce reform liberalized divorce in favor of women and secured women's property rights after separation. We use this improvement in women's bargaining power in marriage for a regression discontinuity analysis of the demand for sex-selective abortions. We show that the increase in women's bargaining power reduces the propensity to have a son after a firstborn daughter by 8.9 percentage points. We also find that the effect is larger for women with higher health risks.
        KW  - intra-household allocation
KW  - gender inequality
KW  - divorce law
        ER  -