编号：E-2024-6-1
题目：The Quiet Revolution: Send-Down Movement and Female Empowerment in China
作者：Chong Liu, Wenyi Lu, Ye Yuan
联系方式：Chong Liu, pkuliuchong@pku.edu.cn.
摘要： What promotes female empowerment and gender equality? We investigate how internal
population mobility and social interaction foster the advancement of female empowerment and gender equality across diverse subpopulations. Leveraging the Send-down Movement, a massive mandated urban-to-rural youth resettlement program in China, as a quasi-experimental setting, we find that rural females more exposed to urban youths achieved higher levels of education, increased labor participation, greater financial independence, enhanced autonomy in marriage and fertility decisions, heightened self-confidence, reduced risk aversion, a stronger embrace of gender-equal social values, and increased political participation. Later in life, these rural women enjoyed higher mental well-being and life satisfaction. Our findings underscore that population mobility may facilitate the transmission of progressive gender-equal ideologies and practices through both human capital formation and social interactions, resulting in significant and enduring impacts on female empowerment in traditional societies.
关键词：Female empowerment; Gender equality; Migration; Population mobility.
