Li, Hongbin; Zhang, Junsen - In: The Review of Economics and Statistics 89 (2007) 1, pp. 110-117
This paper examines the impact of the birth rate on economic growth by using a panel data set of 28 provinces in China … over twenty years. Because China's one-child policy applied only to the Han Chinese but not to minorities, this unique … finding not only supports the view of Malthus, but also suggests that China's birth control policy is indeed growth enhancing …