時間：3月28號下午3:00—4:30
地點：經濟與管理學院文二棟五樓會議室
題目：Hard to get: The scarcity of women and the competition for high-income in urbanChina
報告者簡介：
Dr. David Ong，加利福尼亞大學經濟學博士；曾任北京大學匯豐商學院經濟學副教授，香港中文大學訪問學者，澳大利亞昆士蘭科技大學訪問學者，現任暨南大學伯明翰大學聯合學院教授。已經在Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization、European Economic Review和Applied Economics等SSCI刊物發表論文多篇，主要研究專長領域：實驗經濟學、行為博弈論、產業組織、應用微觀經濟學。
報告摘要：
Reports of the difficulties of elite women in finding suitable mates have been increasing despite the growing scarcity of women inChina. We show that this phenomenon can be a consequence of women’s preference for men who have higher incomes than themselves. With such a reference-dependent preference, the pool of preferred men shrinks as women’s income increases, while the pool of competing poorer women expands. For high-income (h-)women, even when high-income (H-)men are more plentiful and richer (as in China), the direct effect of a greater number of desirable men can be overwhelmed by the indirect effect of the competitive “entry” of low-income (l-)women. We test for these competitive effects using online dating field experimental, Census, andChinaFamily Panel Studies data. Consistent with competitive entry, the search intensity of beautiful l-women for H-men increases with the sex ratio and the income of H-men, while that of the plain-looking decreases. Notwithstanding the search intensity of h-women for H-men uniformly increases, their probability of marriage decreases with the sex ratio and men’s income relative to low-income women. The decrease is absolute for of plain-looking high-income women. Our evidence is consistent with intra-female competition for spouses who can cover the labour market opportunity cost of marriage and childbirth, which vary with women’s income