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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...

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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 State of Mental Health Among the Elderly Chinese

Chen, Yi; Fang, Hanming - 2022

China introduced its stringent family planning policies from the early 1970s, known as the "Later, Longer, Fewer …

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To Stay or to Migrate? When Becker Meets Harris-Todaro

Liao, Pei-Ju; Wang, Ping; Wang, Yin-Chi; Yip, Chong - 2022

China, we find interesting interactions between fertility and migration decisions in various counterfactual experiments with …

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Fertility and the Plough

Alesina, Alberto F. - 2011

The current study finds that societies which historically engaged in plough agriculture today have lower fertility. We argue, and provide ethnographic evidence, that the finding is explained by the fact that with plough agriculture, children, like women, are relatively less useful in the field....

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House Prices and Birth Rates : The Impact of the Real Estate Market on the Decision to Have a Baby

Dettling, Lisa J. - 2011

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The Effect of Interventions to Reduce Fertility on Economic Growth

Ashraf, Quamrul H. - 2011

We assess quantitatively the effect of exogenous reductions in fertility on output per capita. Our simulation model allows for effects that run through schooling, the size and age structure of the population, capital accumulation, parental time input into child-rearing, and crowding of fixed...

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How the West 'Invented' Fertility Restriction

Voigtländer, Nico - 2011

Europeans restricted their fertility long before the Demographic Transition. By raising the marriage age of women and ensuring that a substantial proportion remained celibate, the "European Marriage Pattern" (EMP) reduced childbirths by up to one third between the 14th and 18th century. In a...

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The Opt-In Revolution? Contraception and the Gender Gap in Wages

Bailey, Martha J. - 2012

Decades of research on the U.S. gender gap in wages describes its correlates, but little is known about why women changed their career paths in the 1960s and 1970s. This paper explores the role of "the Pill" in altering women's human capital investments and its ultimate implications for...

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Fifty Years of Family Planning : New Evidence on the Long-Run Effects of Increasing Access to Contraception

Bailey, Martha J. - 2013

This paper assembles new evidence on some of the longer-term consequences of U.S. family planning policies, defined in this paper as those increasing legal or financial access to modern contraceptives. The analysis leverages two large policy changes that occurred during the 1960s and 1970s:...

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