TY - JOUR

T1 - Married to rubber?

T2 - Evidence from the expansion of natural rubber in Southwest China

AU - Min, Shi

AU - Wang, Xiaobing

AU - Bai, Junfei

AU - Waibel, Hermann

N1 - Funding Information: We acknowledge the funding support from National Natural Sciences Foundation of China ( 71761137002 ; 71673008 ) and the Huazhong Agricultural University Scientific & Technological Self-innovation Foundation . This study was also conducted in the framework of the Sino-German “SURUMER Project”, funded by the Bundesministerium für Wissenschaft, Technologie und Forschung (BMBF), FKZ: 01LL0919.

PY - 2021/8

Y1 - 2021/8

N2 - The environmental and economic effects of rubber expansion in southeast Asia have been widely explored, while the possible social influence on local community is rarely investigated. This paper investigates the impacts of rubber cultivation by women's natal households on women's decisions about matrilocal residence after marriage in an ethnic-minority region of Southwest China from the perspectives of family labor and resource endowment. The results suggest that economic factors extend beyond Dai women's traditional customs to determine a woman's decision to live in a matrilocal residence. When labor constraints and resource heterogeneity are present, higher household labor demand and the possession of more location-specific resources such as rubber plantations may increase the likelihood of female family members living in a matrilocal residence after marriage. The findings complement the literature on both the social impacts of agroforestry expansion and the marriage migration in a community with unequally distributed, location-specific resources.

AB - The environmental and economic effects of rubber expansion in southeast Asia have been widely explored, while the possible social influence on local community is rarely investigated. This paper investigates the impacts of rubber cultivation by women's natal households on women's decisions about matrilocal residence after marriage in an ethnic-minority region of Southwest China from the perspectives of family labor and resource endowment. The results suggest that economic factors extend beyond Dai women's traditional customs to determine a woman's decision to live in a matrilocal residence. When labor constraints and resource heterogeneity are present, higher household labor demand and the possession of more location-specific resources such as rubber plantations may increase the likelihood of female family members living in a matrilocal residence after marriage. The findings complement the literature on both the social impacts of agroforestry expansion and the marriage migration in a community with unequally distributed, location-specific resources.

KW - Labor

KW - Matrilocal residence

KW - Resource

KW - Rubber farming

UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85106932668&partnerID=8YFLogxK

U2 - 10.1016/j.forpol.2021.102513

DO - 10.1016/j.forpol.2021.102513

M3 - Article

AN - SCOPUS:85106932668

VL - 129

JO - Forest policy and economics

JF - Forest policy and economics

SN - 1389-9341

M1 - 102513

ER -