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Fertility and Savings : The Effect of China's Two-Child Policy on Household Savings
Baker, Scott; Benmelech, Efraim; Zhishu Yang; Zhang, Qi - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
China's high household savings rate has attracted great academic interest but remains a puzzle. Potential explanations …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013172155
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The State of Mental Health Among the Elderly Chinese
Chen, Yi - 2020
China introduced its stringent family planning policies from the early 1970s, known as the "Later, Longer, Fewer …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012479214
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The Long-Term Consequences of Having Fewer Children in Old Age : Evidence from China’s “Later, Longer, Fewer” Campaign
Chen, Yi - 2018
Family planning plays a central role in contemporary population policies. However, little is known about its long-term consequences in old age because of the identification challenge. In this study, we examine how family planning affects the quality of life of the Chinese elderly. The direction...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012480694
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The Limits (and Human Costs) of Population Policy : Fertility Decline and Sex Selection in China under Mao
Babiarz, Kimberly Singer - 2018
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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012480782
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To Stay or to Migrate? When Becker Meets Harris-Todaro
Liao, Pei-Ju - 2020
China, we find interesting interactions between fertility and migration decisions in various counterfactual experiments with …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012481070
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Intergenerational Transfer, Human Capital and Long-term Growth in China under the One Child Policy
Zhu, Xi - 2013
We argue that the demographic changes caused by the one child policy (OCP) may not harm China's long-term growth. This … attributes to the higher human capital induced by the intergenerational transfer arrangement under China's poor … of schooling rather than 8.1). Our model sheds new light on the prospects of China's long-term growth by emphasizing the …
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The Fertility Consequences of Air Pollution in China
Gao, Xuwen; Song, Ran; Timmins, Christopher - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
pollution distorts individuals' fertility behaviors in China. We document a robust pattern in which increased pollution over …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013334384
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The Sexual Activity and Birth Control Use of American Teenagers
Levine, Phillip B. - 2000
This paper evaluates the evidence regarding teens' sexual activity and birth control use with an emphasis on the contribution of economic analysis. For non-economists, teen sexual activity is often considered spontaneous and irrational, and pregnancies are viewed as mistakes.' Alternatively an...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012471169
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The Missing Baby Bust : The Consequences of the COVID-19 Pandemic for Contraceptive Use, Pregnancy, and Childbirth among Low-Income Women
Bailey, Martha J.; Bart, Lea J.; Lang, Vanessa Wanner - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
Multiple episodes in U.S. history demonstrate that birth rates fall in response to recessions. However, the 2020 COVID-19 recession differed from earlier periods in that employment and access to contraception and abortion fell, as reproductive health centers across the country temporarily closed...
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The Economics of Fertility : A New Era
Doepke, Matthias; Hannusch, Anne; Kindermann, Fabian; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
In this survey, we argue that the economic analysis of fertility has entered a new era. First-generation models of fertility choice were designed to account for two empirical regularities that, in the past, held both across countries and across families in a given country: a negative...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013191043