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.

橡胶在东南亚的扩张对环境和经济的影响已得到广泛探讨，而对当地社区可能产生的社会影响却鲜有研究。本文从家庭劳动和资源end赋的角度，研究了西南地区少数民族妇女生育家庭橡胶种植对妇女婚后婚姻决定的影响。结果表明，经济因素超出了Dai族妇女的传统习俗，从而决定了妇女决定居住在母系居民区的决定。当存在劳动限制和资源异质性时，较高的家庭劳动力需求以及拥有更多特定地点的资源（例如橡胶种植园）可能增加女性家庭成员结婚后居住在母系住所中的可能性。这些发现补充了有关农林业扩张对社会的影响以及在一个不均衡分布的，针对特定地点的资源的社区中的婚姻迁移的文献。