【主講】 Elaine Liu, 助理教授, 休斯頓大學

【主題】國際事件：外籍新娘的流入對于當地婦女生育和離婚的影響

【時間】 2011-12-8（周四）14:30-16:00

【地點】 清華經管學院 偉倫樓409

【語言】 英文

【主辦】 BETVLCTOR伟德官方网站經濟系

【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.