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CROSS‐BORDER MARRIAGE COSTS AND MARRIAGE BEHAVIOR: THEORY AND EVIDENCE
Authors:Yoram Weiss  Junjian Yi  Junsen Zhang
Institution:1. Tel Aviv University, Israel;2. National University of Singapore, Singapore;3. Chinese University of Hong Kong, China (Hong Kong)Junjian Yi acknowledges financial support from the National University of Singapore FASS Start‐up Grant, HSS Grant, and FRC Grant. Junsen Zhang acknowledges financial support from a FIS grant from the Chinese University of Hong Kong. We are grateful to the editor and three anonymous referees for valuable comments. We thank Lena Edlund for valuable comments in the early stage of this study. Yair Antler and Rann Smorodinsky provided help in developing the model. We also received comments from participants in the Labor Working Group Meeting at the University of Chicago, the University of Hong Kong, the University of Chicago‐Renmin Symposium on Family and Labor Economics, the 2013 Econometric Society Asian meeting, and the 2013 Conference on Chinese Economy at CUHK.
Abstract:This article analyzes cross‐border marriages between mainland China and Hong Kong (HK). We examine the effects of a reduction in cross‐border marriage costs following an increase in marriage‐migration quotas and the handover of HK to China. We find that cross‐border marriages mainly involve men from the low tail of the HK attribute distribution. We also find that HK women's position in the marriage market and within households deteriorated following the reduction in cross‐border marriage costs and that their disadvantaged position exerts an incentive effect on their labor market behavior. These outcomes are consistent with our matching model.
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