to the city each year, China is experiencing the largest internal migration in the human history. Using instrumental … variables in the 2006 China Agricultural Census, we find that a 10-percentage-point increase in the migration rate of co …

, the urban-rural income inequality. This pattern in the data suggests that inferences based solely on China's national …

The vast majority of China's fertility decline predates the famous One Child Policy - and instead occurred under its … and fertility behavior, finding that the policy reduced China's total fertility rate by about 0.9 births per woman …, explaining only 28% of China's modern fertility decline. Given son preference, we then consider the parallel issue of sex …

China, we find interesting interactions between fertility and migration decisions in various counterfactual experiments with … migration equilibrium framework with rural agents heterogeneous in skills and fertility preferences. We then establish and … characterize a mixed migration equilibrium where high-skilled rural agents with low fertility preferences always migrate to cities …

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 …

-carrier parents. Further, since a number of Asian countries, China in particular, have high hepatitis B carrier rates, Oster (2005 … ratios. To test this, we collected data on the offspring gender for a cohort of 67,000 people in China who are being observed … explain skewed sex ratios in China …

This paper examines a possible connection between China's massive rural to urban migration and high chemical fertilizer … use rates during the late 1980s and 1990s. Using panel data on villages in rural China (1987-2002), we find that labor out … forms of water pollution, suggesting that industrialization has induced pollution in China both directly and through its …

critical for understanding the relationship between aggregate fertility and household savings. First, we document that parents … perceive children as an important source of old-age support and that, in partial equilibrium (PE), increased fertility lowers … aggregate fertility on household savings …