The Changing Economics of Marriage: Sex Imbalance and Bride Price in China
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In this video, Xu Yuanwei
In this video, Xu Yuanwei discusses her latest research on China’s marriage market and changes in bride price development. She debates China’s one child policy as well as the implications of China’s unbalanced sex ratio for society and economy.
She discusses the following questions:
00:05
1. After 40 years of reform and opening up in China, men outnumber women on a massive scale.
Why is China’s sex ratio so unbalanced?
04:25
2. What are major socio-economic consequences of the imbalanced sex ratio?
07:56
3. What are the different types of marriage payments and transfers?
10:55
4. How did the male surplus affect the marriage market and bride prices? How do families cope with this?
13:34
5. Will the predominance of marriage payments decline with economic development and modernization?
Yuanwei Xu
Yuanwei Xu is a member of the Research Training Group 1723 “Globalization and Development” under the supervision of Prof. Dr. Lukas Menkhoff. She holds a Master degree in Development Economics from University of Göttingen and a Bachelor degree in Accounting from Nanjing University in China.
In the course of her studies she gained work experience from Huawei Technologies Co. as well as Deloitte (Shanghai Office). She has also acquired research experience in RTG1666 GlobalFood and Chair of Prof. Dr. Sebastian Vollmer in University of Göttingen, as well as at Department of Accounting in Nanjing University.
Her research interests comprise Applied Econometrics, Development Economics, Family and Gender, Health and Chinese Economy.
https://www.uni-goettingen.de/de/5875...
She discusses the following questions:
00:05
1. After 40 years of reform and opening up in China, men outnumber women on a massive scale.
Why is China’s sex ratio so unbalanced?
04:25
2. What are major socio-economic consequences of the imbalanced sex ratio?
07:56
3. What are the different types of marriage payments and transfers?
10:55
4. How did the male surplus affect the marriage market and bride prices? How do families cope with this?
13:34
5. Will the predominance of marriage payments decline with economic development and modernization?
Yuanwei Xu
Yuanwei Xu is a member of the Research Training Group 1723 “Globalization and Development” under the supervision of Prof. Dr. Lukas Menkhoff. She holds a Master degree in Development Economics from University of Göttingen and a Bachelor degree in Accounting from Nanjing University in China.
In the course of her studies she gained work experience from Huawei Technologies Co. as well as Deloitte (Shanghai Office). She has also acquired research experience in RTG1666 GlobalFood and Chair of Prof. Dr. Sebastian Vollmer in University of Göttingen, as well as at Department of Accounting in Nanjing University.
Her research interests comprise Applied Econometrics, Development Economics, Family and Gender, Health and Chinese Economy.
https://www.uni-goettingen.de/de/5875...
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