Gender role attitudes and male-female income differences in China

The Journal of Chinese Sociology

Table 5 Mechanisms of gender role attitude effects on women’s income

Variables	Education attainment	Labor force participation	Working hours	ISEI
Variables	OLS	Probit	Tobit	OLS
Gender role attitudes	− .133***	− .171***	− 3.666***	− .835***
Senior high school		.074	− .726	6.213***
College or higher		.813***	.878	15.040***
Good health		.418***	13.390***	2.411***
Age	− .030***	.154***	4.844***	.493***
Age square/10	.001	− .019***	− .585***	− .073***
Married		− .607***	− 12.614***	− .247
Divorced or widowed		− .219	− 5.046	.374
Children under 6 years of age		− .564***	− 12.051***
CPC member		.323**	1.795	5.444***
Rural household registration	− .620***	.009	3.391*	− 2.499***
Han	.043
ISEI of father	.009***
Mother with higher education	.290***
N	2189	2465	2465	2465

Dummy variables of the provincial level are controlled. Standard errors are clustered by township (subdistrict)
***p < 0.01, **p < 0.05, and *p < 0.1 (two-tailed test)