Quanbao Jiang, Shuzhuo Li

Gender Imbalance and Marriage Squeeze in China

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

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.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd
• Seitenzahl: 240
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. August 2024
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm
• ISBN-13: 9781032560960
• ISBN-10: 1032560967
• Artikelnr.: 70368312

Autorenporträt

Quanbao Jiang is Professor of Demography at the Institute of Population and Development Studies, Xi'an Jiaotong University, China. He has published extensively on gender imbalance, low fertility, aging, and health in China. Shuzhuo Li is University Distinguished Professor at Xi'an Jiaotong University, China, Vice President of the China Population Association, and a member of the Social Science Committee of the Ministry of Education. His research interests include population and development policies in China.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Introduction 2. The data quality of SRB 3. Estimation of SRB and
abortion rate 4. The changing trend of SRB 5. Change in China's SRB: A
dynamic spatial panel approach 6. A decomposition of Changes in SRB by
Birth Order 7. A Decomposition of Change in China's SRB at the Provincial
Level 8. Missing Girls from 1980-2010 9. Male surplus 10. China's high SRB
and population development 11. Marriage Squeeze in China's Future 12.
Marriage Squeeze, Never-Married Proportion and Mean Age at First Marriage
13. The decomposition of marriage squeeze into age and sex structure 14.
The life cycle of families of unmarried older men