%0 Report
        %A Cameron, Lisa A.
%A Meng, Xin
%A Zhang, Dandan
        %T China's Sex Ratio and Crime: Behavioral Change or Financial Necessity?
        %D 2016
        %8 2016 Feb
        %I Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)
        %C Bonn
        %7 IZA Discussion Paper
        %N 9747
        %U https://www.iza.org/publications/dp9747
        %X This paper uses survey and experimental data from prison inmates and comparable non-inmates to examine the drivers of rising criminality in China. Consistent with socio-biological research on other species, we find that China's high sex-ratios are associated with greater risk-taking and impatience amongst males. These underlying behavioral impacts explain some part of the increase in criminality. The primary avenue through which the sex-ratio increases crime, however, is the direct pressure on men to appear financially attractive in order to find a partner in the marriage market. These marriage market pressures result in a higher propensity to commit financially rewarding crimes.
        %K sex-ratio
%K time preferences
%K risk-taking
%K marriage markets
%K crime
%K one child policy
%K China