Based on a brief analysis of the evolution of rural women's marriage patterns,this paper con-ducts an economic analysis on rural women's widespread " marrying up" phenomenon and associates it with rural household poverty.In the meantime we use survey data of 14 poor villages in Gansu Province acquired in 2016 to empirically examine the impact of female marriage on family poverty.We find that:(1)Women's marriage has a significant poverty reduction effect and the probability of poverty is reduced by 48.5％;(2)In terms of individual characteristics and family characteristics,women who are married far away from their place of residence(maiden family),married with a man who has some skills,mar-ried to a family which has more males of education and has more migrant workers are less likely to fall in-to poverty.On the contrary," big families",the number of family laborers and the old people have a sig-nificant positive effect on family poverty.%分析农村女性婚姻模式演变的基础上,就农村女性普遍存在的"向上婚"现象进行经济学分析,并将其与农户家庭贫困相关联,利用2016年获得的甘肃14个贫困村的社会调查数据,就女性婚姻对其家庭贫困的影响进行了实证检验.研究发现:女性婚姻对其家庭具有显著减贫效应,已婚使其家庭致贫的概率降低48.5％;就个体特征和家庭特征而言,女性离户口所在地(娘家)远、有一定技能、家庭拥有较高学历男性、务工人数越多的家庭不容易陷入贫困,而"大家庭"、家庭劳动力人数和家庭老人数对其家庭贫困呈显著正向影响.
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