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The Limits and Consequences of Population Policy : Evidence from China's Wan Xi Shao Campaign
Singer Babiarz, Kimberly - 2018
Prior to the famous One Child Policy, China's total fertility rate declined by more than 50% during the 1970s - one of … the most rapid sustained fertility declines documented in modern history. Coinciding with this transition was China …'s contribution to fertility and fertility strategies favoring sons, we find that the campaign i) reduced China's total fertility rate …
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012978094
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Population and Regulation
Mulligan, Casey B.; Shleifer, Andrei - 2021
We present a model of efficient regulation along the lines of Demsetz (1967). In this model, setting up and running regulatory institutions takes a fixed cost, and therefore jurisdictions with larger populations affected by a given regulation are more likely to have them. Consistent with the...
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Do Financial Incentives Affect Fertility?
Cohen, Alma; Dehejia, Rajeev H.; Romanov, Dmitri - 2021
This paper investigates how fertility responds to changes in the price of a marginal child and in household income. We construct a large, individual-level panel data set of married Israeli women during the period 1999-2005 that contains fertility histories and detailed controls. We exploit...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013224426
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Who Owns Children and Does it Matter?
Schoonbroodt, Alice - 2010
Is there an economic rationale for pronatalist policies? In this paper we propose and analyze a particular market failure that may lead to inefficiently low equilibrium fertility and therefore to a need for government intervention. The friction we investigate is related to the ownership of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013148673
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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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When Fast Growing Economies Slow Down : International Evidence and Implications for China
Eichengreen, Barry - 2011
, a level that China should achieve by or soon after 2015. Among our more provocative findings is that growth slowdowns …
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The Promise of Beijing : Evaluating the Impact of the 2008 Olympic Games on Air Quality
Chen, Yuyu - 2011
To prepare for the 2008 Olympic Games, China adopted a number of radical measures to improve air quality. Using …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013127978
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Firm Exports and Multinational Activity Under Credit Constraints
Manova, Kalina - 2011
sectoral pattern of multinational activity. Using detailed customs data from China, we show that foreign affiliates and joint …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013127980
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Monetary and Fiscal Stimuli, Ownership Structure, and China's Housing Market
Deng, Yongheng - 2011
, China's stimulus boosted real GDP growth from an annualized 6.2% in the first quarter of 2009 trough to 11.9% in the first … speed and efficacy of China's stimulus derives from state control over its banking system and corporate sector. Beijing …, fueling a real estate bubble; and that China's seemingly highly effective macroeconomic stimulus package may well have induced …
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