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  - 2023 Mar 01
TA  - Journal of Human Resources
PG  - 532--560
VI  - 58
IP  - 2
4099  - http://jhr.uwpress.org/content/58/2/532.short
4100  - http://jhr.uwpress.org/content/58/2/532.full
SO  - J Hum Resour2023 Mar 01; 58
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.