题    目：Empowered Young Women: Trade Liberalization and Women's Family Decisions in China

嘉    宾：原炜迪 助理教授 南京大学商学院

主持人：钱军辉 教授 上海交通大学安泰经济与管理学院

时    间：2022年10月12日（周三）14:30-16:00

地    点：腾讯会议（校内师生如需会议号和密码，请发邮件至yueqiwang@sjtu.edu.cn获取）

内容简介：

Do trade-induced labor market opportunities affect women's marriage and fertility decisions? Exploiting regional variation in the exposure to the U.S. granting of Permanent Normal Trade Relations (PNTR), we find that more exposed Chinese prefectures experience a relative increase in the fraction of unmarried young women. This relative increase is due to young women delaying their first marriage and more married women choosing to divorce. The share of young women with children, as a result of changed marriage decisions, also experiences a relative decline in more exposed areas. We show that these shifts in family decisions coincide with a trade-induced increase in female workforce participation and reallocation of women relative to men to the service sector, where wages are higher.

演讲人简介：

Weidi Yuan is an Assistant Professor of Economics at School of Business, Nanjing University. She obtained her Ph.D. from University of Geneva in 2020 and then conducted research work at World Trade Organization. Her research interests lie in international trade, development economics, and financial economics. Her research works have been published in European Economic Review and Journal of Comparative Economics.

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