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More Men, More Crime: Evidence from China’s One-Child Policy

Edlund, Lena; Zhang, Junsen; Li, Hongbin; Yi, Junjian - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2007

Crime rates almost doubled in China between 1992 and 2004. Over the same period, sex ratios (males to females) in the crime-prone ages of 16-25 years rose sharply, from 1.053 to 1.093. Although scarcity of females is commonly believed to be a source of male antisocial behavior, a causal link has...

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The Quantity-Quality Tradeoff of Children in a Developing Country: Identification Using Chinese Twins

Li, Hongbin; Zhang, Junsen; Zhu, Yi - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2007

Testing the tradeoff between child quantity and quality within a family is complicated by the endogeneity of family … the lower bound of the true effect of family size (Rosenzweig and Zhang, 2006), these findings suggest a quantity-quality …

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Do Population Control Policies Induce More Human Capital Investment? Twins, Birthweight, and China's 'One Child' Policy

Rosenzweig, Mark R.; Zhang, Junsen - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2006

-off between the quality and quantity of children using the incidence of twins that for the first time takes into account effects … lower bounds on the trade-off between family size and average child quality. Our estimates indicate that, at least in one … deficit of twins. Despite the evident significant trade-off between number of children and child quality in China, however …

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Population Policies, Demographic Structural Changes, and the Chinese Household Saving Puzzle

Ge, Suqin; Yang, Dennis T.; Zhang, Junsen - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012

Using combined data from population censuses and Urban Household Surveys, we study the effects of demographic structural changes on the rise in household saving in China. Variations in fines across provinces on unauthorized births under the one-child policy and in cohort-specific fertility...

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Estimating the Effect of the One-Child Policy on Sex Ratio Imbalance in China: Identification Based on the Difference-in-Differences

Li, Hongbin; Yi, Junjian; Zhang, Junsen - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2010

In China, the male-biased sex ratio has increased significantly. Because the one-child policy only applied to the Han Chinese but not to minorities, this unique affirmative policy allows us to identify the causal effect of the one-child policy on the increase in sex ratios by a...

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Early Health Shocks, Intrahousehold Resource Allocation, and Child Outcomes

Yi, Junjian; Heckman, James J.; Zhang, Junsen; Conti, … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014

An open question in the literature is whether families compensate or reinforce the impact of child health shocks. Discussions usually focus on one dimension of child investment. This paper examines multiple dimensions using household survey data on Chinese child twins whose average age is 11. We...

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