Whether China's low fertility rate is the consequence of the country's strict population control policy is a puzzling question. This paper attempts to disentangle the Chinese population control policy's impacts on the fertility rate from socioeconomic factors using the synthetic control method...

China’s traditional culture makes rural women and men take on different family responsibilities. We use the 2014 ‘China Family Panel Studies’ (CFPS) data to empirically study the impact of children care and elderly care on rural married women going out to work, and explore the welfare...