Academic Journal
Sex ratios and crime: evidence from China
| العنوان: | Sex ratios and crime: evidence from China |
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| المؤلفون: | Lena Edlund, Hongbin Li, Junjian Yi, Junsen Zhang |
| المساهمون: | The Pennsylvania State University CiteSeerX Archives |
| المصدر: | http://www.columbia.edu/%7Ele93/EdlundLiYiZhang13.pdf. |
| سنة النشر: | 2013 |
| المجموعة: | CiteSeerX |
| الوصف: | Since the introduction of the one-child policy in China in 1979, many more boys than girls have been born, foreshadowing a sizable bride shortage. What do young men unable to find wives do? This paper focuses on criminality, an asocial activity that has seen a marked rise since the mid1990s. Exploiting province-year level variation, we find an elasticity of crime with respect to the sex ratio of 16-to 25-year-olds of 3.4, suggesting that male sex ratios can account for one-seventh of the rise in crime. We hypothesize that adverse marriage market conditions drive this association. |
| نوع الوثيقة: | text |
| وصف الملف: | application/pdf |
| اللغة: | English |
| Relation: | http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.1080.4722; http://www.columbia.edu/%7Ele93/EdlundLiYiZhang13.pdf |
| الاتاحة: | http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.1080.4722 http://www.columbia.edu/%7Ele93/EdlundLiYiZhang13.pdf |
| Rights: | Metadata may be used without restrictions as long as the oai identifier remains attached to it. |
| رقم الانضمام: | edsbas.29904ED4 |
| قاعدة البيانات: | BASE |
| الوصف غير متاح. |