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Exposure to the One-Child Policy and Fertility Among Chinese Immigrants to the Us

Lin, Siyuan; Argys, Laura; Averett, Susan L. - 2023

We examine whether women exposed to China's one-child policy (OCP) change their fertility decisions when they migrate to a country without fertility restrictions. Using American Community Survey data (2010 2020), we compare the childbearing decisions of Chinese-born women with varying degrees of...

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The One-Child Policy Amplifies Economic Inequality Across Generations in China

Yu, Yewen - 2020

This study finds that China's one-child policy (OCP), one of the most extreme forms of birth control in recorded history, has amplified economic inequality across generations in China since its introduction in 1979. Poor Chinese families, whose fertility choices are less constrained by the OCP...

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Population Growth and Carbon Emissions

Casey, Gregory P. - 2016

We provide evidence that lower fertility can simultaneously increase income per capita and lower carbon emissions, eliminating a trade-off central to most policies aimed at slowing global climate change. We estimate the effect of lower fertility on carbon emissions accounting for the fact that...

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Population Policy : Abortion and Modern Contraception are Substitutes

Miller, Grant - 2016

There is longstanding debate in population policy about the relationship between modern contraception and abortion. Although theory predicts that they should be substitutes, the existing body of empirical evidence is difficult to interpret. What is required is a large‐scale intervention that...

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Population Policies, Demographic Structural Changes, and the Chinese Household Saving Puzzle

Ge, Suqin - 2012

Using combined data from population censuses and Urban Household Surveys, we study the effects of demographic structural changes on the rise in household saving in China. Variations in fines across provinces on unauthorized births under the one-child policy and in cohort-specific fertility...

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Population and Health Policies

Schultz, T. Paul - 2009

The program evaluation literature for population and health policies is in flux, with many disciplines documenting biological and behavioral linkages from fetal development to late life mortality, chronic disease, and disability, though their implications for policy remain uncertain. Both macro-...

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Improving Health and Safety in the Informal Sector : Evidence from a Randomized Trial in Bangladesh

Islam, Asad; Lee, Wang-Sheng; Triyana, Maggie; Xia, Xing - 2023

paper, we conduct a randomized controlled trial in Bangladesh that provides informal firms with information on occupational …

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Short and Long-Run Labor Market Effects of Developing Country Exports : Evidence from Bangladesh

Robertson, Raymond - 2020

the Multifibre Arrangement (MFA) - spread through Bangladesh's labor markets. Although the end of the MFA was arguably … exogenous to Bangladesh, we instrument export demand with OECD imports to ensure identification. We compare estimates of the ….Unlike in other studies, these local labor market effects dissipate quickly. Furthermore, Bangladesh's export shock was sector …

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Does Workfare Work Well? The Case of the Employment Generation Program for the Poorest in Bangladesh

Cho, Yoonyoung - 2018

evidence building by examining the impact of a large-scale workfare program in Bangladesh, the Employment Generation Program …

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Evaluating Intergenerational Persistence of Economic Preferences : A Large Scale Experiment with Families in Bangladesh

Chowdhury, Shyamal - 2018

Economic preferences – like time, risk and social preferences – have been shown to be very influential for real-life outcomes, such as educational achievements, labor market outcomes, or health status. We contribute to the recent literature that has examined how and when economic preferences...

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