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Childcare, Household Composition, Muslim Ethnicity, and Off-Farm Work in Rural China

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  • Sai Ding
  • Xiao-yuan Dong
  • Margaret Maurer-Fazio

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This study explores how religious and ethnic norms and gender relations interact across the domestic and public spheres of work in rural China's minority-concentrated regions. It focuses on the roles that childcare and household composition play in the employment decisions of prime-age married individuals of Muslim and non-Muslim ethnicity. Using the 2012 China Household Ethnicity Survey (CHES), the study finds that children generally decrease women's likelihood of employment outside the home and increase men's. The gender gap in the probability of off-farm employment is larger for those of Muslim ethnicity. Non-Muslim parents of sons are more likely to migrate for employment than parents of daughters. The presence of women of grandparent age (46–70) universally facilitates labor migration. Men of grandparent age tend to increase only the probability that non-Muslim parents migrate for employment. Additional adult male household members reduce the likelihood that women of Muslim ethnicity have off-farm employment.

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  • Sai Ding & Xiao-yuan Dong & Margaret Maurer-Fazio, 2018. "Childcare, Household Composition, Muslim Ethnicity, and Off-Farm Work in Rural China," Feminist Economics, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 24(2), pages 77-99, April.
    • Handle: RePEc:taf:femeco:v:24:y:2018:i:2:p:77-99
    DOI: 10.1080/13545701.2017.1407032
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    1. Wang, Tao, 2020. "Striving for equal opportunities: Gender identities and educational challenges of ethnic migrants in Northwest China," Children and Youth Services Review, Elsevier, vol. 119(C).

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