By exploiting rich retrospective data on childhood immunization, socioeconomics, and health status in China (the China …

In the past 40 years, a large number of children have been abandoned or abducted in China. We argue that the …, the cultural preference for sons in China has shaped unique gender-based patterns whereby a majority of the children who … trafficking in China.Institutional subscribers to the NBER working paper series, and residents of developing countries may …

Gansu province, China, employing a household fixed effects specification; non-cognitive skills are defined as the inverse of … both externalizing challenges (behavioral problems and aggression) and internalizing challenges (anxiety and withdrawal …

Data on 2,355 married women from the 2006 China Health and Nutrition Survey are used to study how female employment … affects fertility in China. China has deep concerns with both population size and female employment, so the relationship … married woman's preferred number of children by 0.35 on average and her actual number by 0.50. Ramifications for China's one …

plausibly exogenous changes in family size caused by relaxations in China's One Child Policy to estimate the causal effect of …