China's distinctive demographic landscape, early retirement policies, and deeply ingrained gender norms provide a … China Family Panel Studies and leveraging the variation around the pensionable age cutoff, we find substantial increases in …

There is growing concern about a decline in the total fertility rate worldwide, but nowhere is the concern greater than … generate incentives for individuals to reduce not just the fertility rate within families, but also the incentive to form … fertility rates. Our results show that the impact of social security on these variables has been non-trivial. Our calibrated …

, combined with reduced fertility and increases in the working-age population, have contributed to economic growth in some areas …

affects fertility in China. China has deep concerns with both population size and female employment, so the relationship …Data on 2,355 married women from the 2006 China Health and Nutrition Survey are used to study how female employment … prospects affect fertility. Then a well-validated instrumental variable isolates this effect. Female employment reduces a …