The vast majority of China's fertility decline predates the famous One Child Policy - and instead occurred under its … and fertility behavior, finding that the policy reduced China's total fertility rate by about 0.9 births per woman …, explaining only 28% of China's modern fertility decline. Given son preference, we then consider the parallel issue of sex …

China, we find interesting interactions between fertility and migration decisions in various counterfactual experiments with … migration equilibrium framework with rural agents heterogeneous in skills and fertility preferences. We then establish and … characterize a mixed migration equilibrium where high-skilled rural agents with low fertility preferences always migrate to cities …

pollution distorts individuals' fertility behaviors in China. We document a robust pattern in which increased pollution over …We incorporate pollution exposure into Becker's "Quantity-Quality" (Q-Q) model of fertility and quantify how air … time negatively affects the fertility of ethnic Han people, who comprise approximately 92% of the Chinese population. These …

China's high household savings rate has attracted great academic interest but remains a puzzle. Potential explanations …

China's total fertility rate declined very little following implementation of the One Child Policy (OCP) in 1979 … multi-decrement fertility life tables, finding that the policy explains 46% of China's total fertility rate decline during … contribution to low fertility in China than suggested by past research. More generally, our paper highlights the central role of …

to estimate the effect of education on fertility and child mortality. Time and region varying exposure to the school … between husband and wife. We show that female education is a stronger determinant of age at marriage and early fertility than …

education on teen fertility for a large sample of women drawn from multiple waves of the Canadian Census. We find that greater … little evidence of an effect after these ages, consistent with the idea that being enrolled in school deters fertility in a …

-income countries. In doing so, it focuses on fertility outcomes (the number and timing of births), women's health and socio … programs may only explain a modest share of fertility decline in real-world settings (explaining 4-20% of fertility decline …

that demonstrates both policies' effects on fertility rates, I find suggestive evidence that individuals' access to …