【主讲】 Elaine Liu, 助理教授, 休斯顿大学

【主题】国际事件：外籍新娘的流入对于当地妇女生育和离婚的影响

【时间】 2011-12-8（周四）14:30-16:00

【地点】 清华经管学院 伟伦楼409

【语言】 英文

【主办】 清华大学经济管理学院经济系

【Speaker】 Elaine Liu, Assistant Professor

【Topic】 A Foreign Affair: Fertility and Divorce Responses of Local Women Due to the Influx of Foreign Brides

【Time】 14:30-16:00, 2011-12-8, Thursday

【Venue】 Weilun 409, Tsinghua SEM

【Language】English

【Organizer】Department of Economics

Abstract

In recent years, the bride in one out of every 5 Taiwanese marriages have been non-Taiwanese. Most of these cross borders marriages involve a commercial marriage broker arranging for a foreign bride to enter Taiwan from China, Vietnam or Indonesia. In the wake of this massive influx of foreign brides, local women may be displaced and the intrahousehold bargaining power may shift toward married men who, after getting a divorce, may now easily re-marry a foreign bride. This paper first describes the phenomenon, and then examines the impact of this massive influx of foreign brides on the fertility and divorce pattern of local women. Our dataset consists of the universe of all marriages, divorces and the subsequent birth records between 1998-2006 in Taiwan. We use regional and time variation of the foreign brides share at the county level to examine the variation in duration of marriages and fertility outcomes of Taiwanese women. We find that a higher share of Chinese and Southeast Asian brides is associated with an increase in divorce rates and a decrease in fertility rates among local married women.