Howden, David; Zhou, Yang - In: Economic Affairs 34 (2014) 3, pp. 353-369
This paper gives a brief overview of China's family planning policy which, although recently relaxed, still controls a large swath of the population. Unofficially known as the ‘one-child policy’, it resulted from the social strife of the 1970s coupled with a Malthusian pessimism concerning...