TY  - RPRT
        AU  - Koh, Yumi
AU  - Li, Jing
AU  - Wu, Yifan
AU  - Yi, Junjian
AU  - Zhang, Hanzhe
        TI  - Young Women in Cities
        PY  - 2023/Jul/
        PB  - Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)
        CY  - Bonn
        T2  - IZA Discussion Paper
        IS  - 16353
        UR  - https://www.iza.org/publications/dp16353
        AB  - Young women outnumber young men in cities in many countries during periods of economic growth and urbanization. This gender imbalance among young urbanites is more pronounced in larger cities. We use the gradual rollout of special economic zones across China as a quasi-experiment to establish the causes of this gender imbalance. Our analysis suggests that a key contributor is gender-differential incentives to migrate due to rural women's higher likelihood of marrying and marrying up in cities when urbanization creates more economic opportunities and an abundance of high-income marriage-age men.
        KW  - labor market
KW  - gender imbalance
KW  - migration
KW  - urbanization
KW  - marriage market
        ER  -