In the wake of the one-child policy of 1979, China experienced an unprecedented rise in the sex ratio at birth (ratio … for the sex ratio at birth affect the probability of failure to marry in 21st century China. Three consequences of the … infections, the economic and physical well-being of men who fail to marry, and China's ability to care for its elderly, with a …

The vast majority of China's fertility decline predates the famous One Child Policy - and instead occurred under its … and fertility behavior, finding that the policy reduced China's total fertility rate by about 0.9 births per woman …, explaining only 28% of China's modern fertility decline. Given son preference, we then consider the parallel issue of sex …

China, we find interesting interactions between fertility and migration decisions in various counterfactual experiments with … migration equilibrium framework with rural agents heterogeneous in skills and fertility preferences. We then establish and … characterize a mixed migration equilibrium where high-skilled rural agents with low fertility preferences always migrate to cities …

local Chinese governments on different dates. Using China's 2015 population census combined with a difference … of the policy is more pronounced among couples who have higher fertility preferences and who are less sensitive to child …

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 …, whose fertility choices are less constrained by the OCP than rich ones, have more children but invest less in human capital …