chinawomen: Sex Ratio and the Price of Agricultural Crops in China

chinawomenR Documentation

Sex Ratio and the Price of Agricultural Crops in China

Description

Demographic and agricultural crop data for individual counties in China.

Usage

chinawomen

Format

A data frame with 51766 rows and 9 variables:

admin

integer: unique county identifier

biryr

integer: year of cohort (birth year)

birpop

integer: birth population in a given year

han

numeric

sex

numeric: proportion of males in the birth cohort

teasown

numeric: quantity of tea sown in the county

orch

numeric: quantity of orchard-type crops planted in the county

cashcrop

numeric: quantity of cash crops planted in the county

post

integer: indicator variable for the introduction of price reforms

Details

See QSS Table 7.4.

References

  • Imai, Kosuke. 2017. Quantitative Social Science: An Introduction. Princeton University Press. URL.

  • Missing women and the price of tea in China: The effect of sex-specific earnings on sex imbalance.” Quarterly Journal of Economics, vol. 123, no. 3, pp. 1251–1285.


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