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As is well‐known,“foot‐binding”,regarded as an inefficient institution owing to its great harm to the women’s body and mind, existed and lasted for a very long period in the history of China. Furthermore, we are faced with the general question: why so many inefficient institutions in...
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Exploiting the exogenous shock of change of marriage law, this paper estimates a quasi-natural experimental effect of … age at marriage on marital stability for the first time. A new Marriage Law came into force in Jan. 1, 1981 in China, with … new requirement on age at marriage. Using a regression discontinuity design by restricting sample to those married just …
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