發展經濟學研討會 

【總第31期】 

【時間】 1月8日，星期五，12:00—13:30
【地點】：明德主樓623會議室
【主題】：Love, Life, and Leftover Ladies in Urban China 


【主講人】：尤婧（中國人民大學農業與農村發展學院）
 
【摘要】：Marriage in urban China is featured by rising age at first marriage and declining marriage rates, especially among college educated professional females in their late 20s or in 30s. We exploit two nationally representative datasets over the period 2008-2012 and investigate the determinants of forming marriage for urban women aged 27 or above who are termed “leftover”. We estimate a recursive and dynamic mixed-equation model to describe women’s joint decisions on career, education and marriage. It considers various traits including demographic characteristics, wealth, work-related indicators, personality, attitudes and expectation, physical and facial attractiveness, leisure activities, personal and parents’ social status, local gender identity norms and marriage market conditions. We find “marital college-discount”: an undergraduate degree reduces the probability of marriage by 5%-6.3% and a doctoral degree further oppresses it by 8.4%-10.4%. Counterfactual analysis indicates monotonicity, complementarity and substitution in multidimensional matching patterns. Patriarchy still appears to prevail.


【演講人簡介】
尤婧，2011年于英國曼徹斯特大學獲經濟學博士，現為中國人民大學農業與農村發展學院副教授，劍橋大學訪問研究員（Visiting Fellow，2014-2016），研究方向為發展經濟學、應用微觀經濟學和微觀計量經濟學。在World Development、Health Economics、Oxford Bulletin of Economics & Statistics等國際知名SSCI期刊發表論文14篇，在中文核心期刊《中國農村經濟》發表論文1篇，國際出版英文專著兩部，主持國家自然科學基金、教育部人文社科基金、英國科學院和聯合國世界發展經濟學研究所等資助的國內外科研課題十幾項。

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中國人民大學經濟學院 2016年1月2日