This article uses China's family planning policies to quantify and explain spillovers in fertility decisions. We test … whether ethnic minorities decreased their fertility in response to the policies, although only the majority ethnic group, the …-specific fertility levels to construct a measure of the negative shock to Han fertility. Combining this measure with variation in the …

China’s fertility decline was very fast. However, what has driven this decline is controversial. The common wisdom … attributes it to the strict population control policies. Yet, fertility might also decline because of the spectacular economic … fertility and education choices. The quantitative analysis shows that the population policies are critical for reducing the …

of purchased and own care, the effect of income on fertility is ambiguous, even if quantity of children is a normal good … income effect on fertility is positive when quantity is a normal good. (iii)If, on the other hand, there only is own care …, there is a different kind of quantity-quality trade-off. The income effect on fertility is positive if quantity is a closer …

changes in fertility, child schooling and lifetime married female labor supply as a consequence of exogenous changes in health … child mortality lead to a modest decline in human capital and increase in fertility, with little effect on married female … labor force involvement. In sharp contrast, reductions in morbidity are found to lower fertility and increase education. The …

focus on uninsurable risk and intergenerational consumption smoothing but abstract from the fertility decision, such as … Loury [1981] and Laitner [1992], and models without risk that focus on the fertility decision, such as Becker and Barro … [1988]. I show that when both uninsurable risk and fertility decisions are present, a striking result obtains: wealthier …

living standards and fertility levels. We observe the formation of an uneven labour market in which male supply for labour … legitimate fertility levels. Fertility control is the direct instrument we think workers have to control their number in a …

took place in a concentrated period of time. Among the latter was a sharp fall in fertility rates, leading to a growing …