Place-based policies, rural employment, and intra-household resources allocation: Evidence from China's economic zones

• 成果类型: Article
• 署名作者: Zhao, Chuanmin; Qu, Xi
• 署名单位: Beijing Jiaotong University; Shanghai Jiao Tong University
• 刊物名称: JOURNAL OF DEVELOPMENT ECONOMICS
• ISSN/ISSBN: 0304-3878
• DOI: 10.1016/j.jdeveco.2023.103210
• 发表日期: 2024
• 关键词: Place-based policy; Economic zone; Resource share; Rural employment; Intra-household inequality

摘要

Using both reduced-form methods and structural modeling, we identify the relationship between place-based policies and individual bargaining power in rural China. Exposure to economic zones significantly increases women's resource shares and reduces within-household inequality. The results are mainly driven by economic zones with female-dominated industries and women's sectoral reallocation from agricultural to non-agriculture employment. Moreover, we analyze the impact of place-based policies on children's education and find the dropout probability of children decreases by more than 4% when households live near EZs and girls benefit more from women's bargaining power compared with boys.