Frontiers in Economic Theory and Policy (Lecture 22) - What Drives the Decline in Female Labor Supply in Urban China?

Title: What Drives the Decline in Female Labor Supply in Urban China?Speaker: Qian Pengzhan, Research Fellow at IZA and Royal Holloway College, University of London; Ph.D. Queen Mary University of London. Research areas: macroeconomics, labor and development economics.Abstract: Urban China’s female labor force participation fell by 10 percentage points from 1989 to 2009. A life-cycle model sho...