YoungWomeninCities:UrbanizationandGender-biasedMigration∗YumiKoh†JingLi‡YifanWu§JunjianYi¶HanzheZhangAugust25,2024AbstractYoungwomenoutnumberyoungmenincitiesinmanycountriesduringperiodsofeconomicgrowthandurbanization.Thisgenderimbalanceamongyoungurbanitesismorepronouncedinlargercities.WeusethegradualrolloutofSpecialEconomicZonesacrossChinaasaquasi-experimenttoestablishthecausalimpactofurban-izationongender-differentiatedincentivestomigrate.Wehighlighttheroleofthemarriagemarketinincreasingruralwomen’schanceofmarryingandmarryingupinurbanareasduringrapidurbanization.Keywords:urbanization,migration,genderimbalance,marriagemarketJELclassifications:O15,J1...