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This paper investigates the net impact of birth control policy in China on educational attainment of the partially excluded ethnic minorities. Exploring county-level variation in the value of fines levied for unsanctioned births, we show that more stringent enforcement of the birth control...
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-ethnic tensions. At the same time, inter-ethnic competition may influence individual fertility decisions. Using the variation in birth … dragon years, which are considered auspicious. We find a negative fertility response from Malays - for every additional … Chinese new-born child, Malays reduced their fertility by 0.30 children. We estimate the elasticity of this inter …
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In China, the male-biased sex ratio has increased significantly. Because the one-child policy only applied to the Han Chinese but not to minorities, this unique affirmative policy allows us to identify the causal effect of the one-child policy on the increase in sex ratios by a...
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This paper reexamines the issue of whether China's birth control policy induces more human capital investments per child. Rosenzweig and Zhang(2009) found there was significant tradeoff between number of children and child quality in China thus concluded that the contribution of China's...
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reduction in fertility would contribute to Chinese human capital enhancement. However, the quantity-quality tradeoff may be not …
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This paper tests the effects of fertility on household structure and parental labor supply in rural China. To solve the … ordinary least squares estimates show a negative correlation between fertility and parental labor supply. Using twinning as a … natural experiment, we do not find evidence on the negative effects of fertility on parental labor supply. By contrast, we …
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Despite empirical evidence that individuals form their fertility preferences by observing social norms and interactions … China Labor-force Dynamics Survey to investigate the association between community-level peer effects and fertility … fertility reduces the preference of wanting only one child by 14.3%, whereas it increases the probability of preferring three …
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) on fertility among reproductive-age women. We find that IU reduces the number of children born, with more pronounced … gender roles, a reduction in the importance placed on ancestral lines, deteriorated health and reduced fertility preferences. …
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in the 1980s to empirically examine the causal impact of women's education on fertility in rural China by difference …
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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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