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been the world's fastest growing region over the last decade. Economists have often argued that high fertility rates are … mainly driven by women's demand for children (and not by family planning efforts) with low levels of unwanted fertility … relationship between wanted fertility and number of children born in a panel of 200 country-years controlling for country …
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We examine whether women exposed to China's one-child policy (OCP) change their fertility decisions when they migrate … to a country without fertility restrictions. Using American Community Survey data (2010-2020), we compare the …
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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 … population control policy significantly decreased China's birth rate after the “Later, Longer, and Fewer” policy came into force …
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. It is widely believed that China's one-child policy promotes the human capital level of the new generation. According to … reduction in fertility would contribute to Chinese human capital enhancement. However, the quantity-quality tradeoff may be not … the whole story, because another crucial factor relates to which segment of the population is reduced. China's one …
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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 … population control policy significantly decreased China's birth rate after the "Later, Longer, and Fewer" policy came into force …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012149848
This article uses China's family planning policies to quantify and explain spillovers in fertility decisions. We test … whether ethnic minorities decreased their fertility in response to the policies, although only the majority ethnic group, the …-specific fertility levels to construct a measure of the negative shock to Han fertility. Combining this measure with variation in the …
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I empirically characterize China's One-Child Policy as an individually tailored, age-specific pricing system allowing … number of sons. Despite this inelastic response, the policy impacted fertility through large permit prices. The total … fertility rate and average daughter-to-son ratio were 1.5 and 0.8 in 2000. Without the policy, these values would been have 2 …
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-marital investment. Changes in the eligibility criteria for second-child permits during the one-child policy in China provide province …
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We examine whether women exposed to China's one-child policy (OCP) change their fertility decisions when they migrate … to a country without fertility restrictions. Using American Community Survey data (2010 2020), we compare the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014346263
with fewer children for support. Inequality in China can also be traced to increasing returns to schooling, especially …
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