In this paper we use a new data set describing households with and without twin children in China to quantify the trade … deficit of twins. Despite the evident significant trade-off between number of children and child quality in China, however …-off between the quality and quantity of children using the incidence of twins that for the first time takes into account effects …

, whose fertility choices are less constrained by the OCP than rich ones, have more children but invest less in human capital …This study finds that China's one-child policy (OCP), one of the most extreme forms of birth control in recorded … history, has amplified economic inequality across generations in China since its introduction in 1979. Poor Chinese families …

China introduced its world-famous One-Child Policy in 1979. However, its fertility appears to have declined even faster … half of the decline in China's total fertility rate from 5.7 in 1969 to 2.7 in 1978. In comparison to the 1979 One … Group in understanding the fertility decline since the early 1970s. In 1970, provinces gradually established an institution …

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 … significantly fewer children than women who were not exposed to the OCP. These findings are robust to several specification checks. …

children as of 1st January, 2016. This paper systematically examines the labor market consequences of China's family planning …China initiated its family planning policy in 1962 and one-child policy in 1980 and allows all couples to have two … policies. First, we briefly review the major historical evolution of China's family planning policies. Second, we investigate …

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 …

This article uses China's family planning policies to quantify and explain spillovers in fertility decisions. We test … local share of Han, we estimate that a woman gives birth to 0.65 fewer children if the average completed fertility among her … whether ethnic minorities decreased their fertility in response to the policies, although only the majority ethnic group, the …

China's total fertility rate declined very little following implementation of the One Child Policy (OCP) in 1979 … multi-decrement fertility life tables, finding that the policy explains 46% of China's total fertility rate decline during … contribution to low fertility in China than suggested by past research. More generally, our paper highlights the central role of …

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 …With about five children born per woman and a population growth rate of 2.5 per cent per year, sub-Saharan Africa has …

adolescents, favoring earlier-born children within household in academic achievement and cognitive skill measures. We highlight … harsh parenting as a novel channel of birth order effects, in which earlier-born children are less likely to be physically …, suggesting weakened role of son preference within families in contemporary China. …