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 …

Population policies are defined here as voluntary programs which help people control their fertility and expect to … improve their lives. There are few studies of the long-run effects of policy-induced changes in fertility on the welfare of … contraception or age-specific fertility. The dearth of long-run family planning experiments has led economists to consider …