China's birth control in the late 20th century remains one of the most controversial social experiments in history …

savings relative to pay-as-you go systems. Our results indicate that more wealth should be transferred from the young to the … implicit return on a pay-as-you-go system and the interest rate on savings should be equal to the growth rate of the economy …

China's growth is characterized by massive capital accumulation, made possible by high and increasing domestic savings …. In this paper we develop a model with the aim of explaining why savings rates have been high and increasing, and we … investigate the general equilibrium effects on capital accumulation and growth. We show that increased savings and capital …

of relative needs of people at different ages based on a regression model, which embraces the household age compositions … and size in the assessment. Our analysis uses household survey data from five developing countries in Asia …—Bangladesh, Cambodia, the People's Republic of China (PRC), Thailand, and Viet Nam. To our best knowledge, this is among the pioneer work …

Chapter 1: Introduction -- Chapter 2: A Concentrated Demographic Transition -- Chapter 3: China’s Dual Transition …This book presents an in-depth examination of China’s population control policies from their establishment to the … research on contemporary Chinese demographics with a historical analysis of China’s labour market structure. Using data from …

. By exploiting the staggered adoption of two-child policy in place of one-child policy in China, we document that …. The relative strength of these two channels depend on household wealth, so that fertility changes generate opposite …