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 …

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 …

(completed cohort fertility among the parous). This paper quantifies the contributions of these two components for women in …. Childlessness explains only 38% of the decline in cohort fertility in the advanced economies in our analysis. In the Indian context …, childlessness accounts for only 6% of the difference between high-fertility and below-replacement districts. Moreover, in many …

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 …