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Gender Imbalance and Marriage Squeeze in China

Gender Imbalance and Marriage Squeeze in China

Jiang, Quanbao
Li, Shuzhuo

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Series: China Perspectives

General Racism & Ethnic StudiesGeneral Sociology

ISBN10: 1032785535
ISBN13: 9781032785530
Publisher: Routledge
Published: Oct 27 2025
Pages: 242
Weight: 0.79
Height: 0.53 Width: 6.14 Depth: 9.21
Language: English

This book presents a comprehensive analysis of China's imbalanced sex ratio at birth and marriage market, and the implications of these phenomena for population development and families.

China's persistently high sex ratio at birth (SRB) since the early 1980s has led to serious gender imbalance and male marriage squeeze. After examining the quality of existing data on SRB, the authors provide their estimates of the sex-selective abortion rate, describe the trends and geographical patterns in SRB, and disaggregate changes in SRB by birth order and province. Special attention is given to the number and proportion of missing girls between 1980 and 2010. Based on the quantitative analyses, the book projects the implications of the severe gender imbalance for China's population development and the future dynamics of the marriage market, including trends in age at first marriage, the proportion of never-married, the age structure of surplus males, and the life cycle of bare branch families.

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