Does daughter deficit promote paternal substance use? Evidence from China.

ABSTRACT: China and various other countries have experienced unbalanced sex ratios in the marriage market, which triggers intense competition and pressure to get married. Meanwhile, China has more smokers and drinkers than any other countries in the world. This paper provides evidence on smoking and alcohol use as a stress coping strategy for the competitive marriage market. This paper utilizes two household longitudinal datasets from rural China-a national survey and a regional survey-to examine paternal substance use in response to skewed sex ratios of their children's generation. The longitudinal feature of the two datasets enables us to explore within household variation in smoking and alcohol use. Sex ratios are matched using a 1% sample of the 2000 China Population Census. Strikingly, paternal

SUBMITTER: Chen X 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6217791 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature