PT - JOURNAL ARTICLE AU - Huang, Yuting AU - Pantano, Juan AU - Ye, Han AU - Yi, Junjian TI - Property Division upon Divorce and Household Decisions AID - 10.3368/jhr.58.4.0519-10243R3 DP - 2021 Apr 13 TA - Journal of Human Resources PG - 0519-10243R3 4099 - http://jhr.uwpress.org/content/early/2021/04/05/jhr.58.4.0519-10243R3.short 4100 - http://jhr.uwpress.org/content/early/2021/04/05/jhr.58.4.0519-10243R3.full AB - Before 2011, Chinese married couples expected equal-division of housing property upon divorce even when the home was titled only under the husband's name and bought by the husband before marriage. In 2011, a Supreme Court decision led to enforcement of a title-based regime, only for housing property purchased before marriage and brought into the marriage by one of the spouses. We investigate the effects of this legal change using a difference-in-differences design. We find that this legal change weakened wives’ intrahousehold bargaining power, leading to reductions in their leisure, increased consumption of male-favored goods, and reduced investment in children.