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Population Policy : Abortion and Modern Contraception Are Substitutes

Miller, Grant; Valente, Christine - 2016

There is longstanding debate in population policy about the relationship between modern contraception and abortion. Although theory predicts that they should be substitutes, the existing body of empirical evidence is difficult to interpret. What is required is a large-scale intervention that...

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Female education and its impact on fertility : the relationship is more complex than one may think

Jungho Kim - 2016

The negative correlation between women's education and fertility is strongly observed across regions and time; however …, its interpretation is unclear. Women's education level could affect fertility through its impact on women's health and …

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How China's "Later, Longer, Fewer" campaign extends life expectancy : a study of intergenerational support for elderly parents

Bansak, Cynthia; Dziadula, Eva; Wang, Sophie Xuefei - 2024

This study documents increased intergenerational support for elderly parents in China among adults who were exposed to … the "Later, Longer, Fewer" (LLF) family planning campaign in the 1970s. Using the China Health and Retirement Longitudinal … Study, we identify adults of childbearing age whose fertility was reduced. We find LLF exposure increases the likelihood of …

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Population policies, demographic structural changes, and the Chinese household saving puzzle

Ge, Suqin; Yang, Dennis Tao; Zhang, Junsen - 2012

structural changes on the rise in household saving in China. Variations in fines across provinces on unauthorized births under … the one-child policy and in cohort-specific fertility influenced by the implementation of population control policies are … investigated in the context of household saving decisions in China. -- household saving ; one-child policy ; demographic structure …

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Population Policies, Demographic Structural Changes, and the Chinese Household Saving Puzzle

Ge, Suqin - 2012

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Auswirkungen familienpolitischer Instrumente auf die Fertilität : internationaler Vergleich für ausgewählte Länder : Studie im Auftrag der Robert Bosch Stiftung

Meier, Volker - 2005

Fertility rates have declined in all OECD countries throughout the last decades. Despite this common secular trend … Italy display lower fertility rates than France, the United Kongdom, and the Scandinavian countries. All countries use some …. Although these measures are mainly motivated by equity considerations, they will generally also have an impact on fertility. …

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Unintended consequences of family planning policies on the breastfeeding gap between sons and daughters

Chae, Minhee; Cai, Yong; Kim, Jun Hyung; Lavely, William R. - 2023

We examine the effect of a Chinese family planning policy (FPP) known as "Later, Longer, and Fewer" on the gender gap in breastfeeding. We find that FPP increased the daughter-son breastfeeding gap in favor of sons in rural areas. Mean intensity of the FPP predicts the gender gap to be 35%...

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The limits (and human costs) of population policy : fertility decline and sex selection in China under Mao

Babiarz, Kimberly Singer; Ma, Paul; Miller, Grant; … - 2019

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The power of the government : China's family planning leading group and the fertility decline since 1970

Chen, Yi; Huang, Yingfei - 2018 - Current Draft: April 2018

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 …

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The effect of China's One Child Policy on sex selection, family size, and the school enrolment of daughters

Qian, Nancy - 2017

I first document that the introduction of the One Child Policy dramatically increased sex selection in certain regions, and that the Chinese government responded to this by allowing parents who had a daughter as their first child to try for a second child. Next, I show that the increase in...

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