over fertility. Furthermore, we find that the ability to commit to household resource allocations depends on the gender of …

modify local norms can aid in policy implementation using the case of rural China. In the early 1970s, China introduced a …

exploit a different source of exogenous variation in family size. The One Child Policy (OCP) in China dramatically reduced … Chinese fertility and we examine how the OCP has affected the educational attainment of Chinese migrants to the U.S. Using …

exploit a different source of exogenous variation in family size. The One Child Policy (OCP) in China dramatically reduced … Chinese fertility and we examine how the OCP has affected the educational attainment of Chinese migrants to the U.S.Using data …

This paper investigates the net impact of birth control policy in China on educational attainment of the partially … rising educational gap between ethnic minorities and majorities in China. …

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

Previous studies usually use child gender-related variables as instruments for fertility choices in households. However … China's One Child Policy. Applying to the children's effects on parental migration decision, we find that the addition of …, we find that without considering the effect of child gender, the traditional IV estimate of the fertility effect will be …

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 …

In this paper, we show that fertility shapes the risky investment decisions of the rich and the poor in opposite ways …. By exploiting the staggered adoption of two-child policy in place of one-child policy in China, we document that … increased fertility encourages richer households to participate in risky stock market but deters such risk-taking behavior by …

This study comprehensively examines export tariff liberalization’s influence on women’s marital and fertility decisions … in China, using accession to the WTO as a natural experiment. Our identification relies on the shift-share design that …