1 论文标题
Sex Imbalance, Marriage Competition, and Entrepreneurship: Evidence from rural China
2 作者信息
Yan YUAN Zhao Rong Lihe Xu
3 出处和链接（比如，NBER working paper No.11000）
Selected Paper prepared for presentation at the Agricultural & Applied Economics
Association’s 2012 AAEA Annual Meeting, Seattle, Washington, August 12-14, 2012
http://ageconsearch.umn.edu/bitstream/125021/2/Yuan_Rong_Xu.pdf
4 摘要
It is well acknowledged that the entrepreneurship is important to economic development. In
this paper, we suggest a gender-related determinant of entrepreneurship, local sex imbalance.
Using a 2009 rural finance survey, we examine how this imbalance influences the venturing
at the household level in China. We find that households with a son in more sex-imbalanced
villages are more likely to have a business. Further examination reveals that these
households have any advantage in borrowing