In this paper, we show that the one-child policy has played a significant role in the decline of China's fertility. The … one-child policy had reduced China's fertility rate by an additional 11.5%, based on a year-on-year comparison with the … case if China had not implemented the policy. The methodology we introduced in estimating the number of “missing women …

marriage rates, fertility and educational attainment of women who were affected by the change in law. After the passage of the … law, marriage rates declined sharply, and as a result, fertility declined and educational attainment increased. The … marriage can have significant implications for reducing fertility and increasing educational attainment of women …

fertility rate and the female labour force participation rate across Western European countries. The present paper shows that … this cross-country correlation becomes negative and significant, once one corrects the total fertility rate for a …

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 …

in the 1980s to empirically examine the causal impact of women's education on fertility in rural China by difference …Using data from the China Family Panel Studies, this paper exploits the Compulsory Education Law of China implemented …