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SUBMITTER: Chu J
PROVIDER: S-EPMC6290655 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Dec
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Chu Junhong J Liu Haoming H Png I P L IPL
Demography 20181201 6
We exploit China's heating policy to investigate how nonlabor income affects marriage. From the mid-1950s, the policy gave substantial subsidies to urban residents north of the Huai River. Applying geographic regression discontinuity, we find that with the policy, urban men in the north married 15 months earlier than men in the south. The difference is substantial given that the average age at first marriage is 24.9 years for urban men in the south. The effect is larger for later birth cohorts, ...[more]