Factors that Influencing Chinese Female’s Marriage Intention

Abstract

This article aims to study the factors influencing Chinese women's marriage intention, so as to put forward corresponding policy suggestions and promote the solution of marriage-related social problems. This paper applys several statistical methods to, deal with such problem. After conducting correlation analysis, unit root test and cointegration test on the data, this paper made LM test, F test and Horsman test, and determined to adopt the fixed effect model for research. This paper uses fixed effect model to study the influence of women's education level, women's wage level and GDP on Chinese women's marriage and divorce intention. The data in this paper come from China Statistical Yearbook, collecting data from 1999 to 2020 in China's provinces for research. According to the model results, this paper has two main conclusions. First, the wage level is inversely related to women's willingness to divorce. Second, the women's education level is inversely related to women's willingness to marry. The higher education level women have, the lower willingness to marry they have.