PT  - JOURNAL ARTICLE
AU  - Margaret Maurer-Fazio
AU  - Rachel Connelly
AU  - Lan Chen
AU  - Lixin Tang
TI  - Childcare, Eldercare, and Labor Force Participation of Married Women in Urban China, 1982–2000
AID  - 10.3368/jhr.46.2.261
DP  - 2011 Mar 31
TA  - Journal of Human Resources
PG  - 261--294
VI  - 46
IP  - 2
4099  - http://jhr.uwpress.org/content/46/2/261.short
4100  - http://jhr.uwpress.org/content/46/2/261.full
SO  - J Hum Resour2011 Mar 31; 46
AB  - We employ Chinese population census data to consider married, urban women’s labor force participation decisions in the context of their families. We find that the presence in the household of a parent, parent-in-law, or person aged 75 or older increases prime-age women’s likelihood of participating in market work. The presence of preschool-aged children decreases it. The negative effect on women’s labor force participation of having young children in the household is substantially larger for married, rural-to-urban migrants than for their nonmigrant counterparts. Similarly, the positive effect of coresidence with elders is larger for rural-to-urban migrant women than for nonmigrants.