...Zai Liang; Michael J. White Abstract This paper examines the long-term patterns of migration within China between 1950 and 1988. The analysis uses data from China's 1988 2/1,000 Fertility and Birth Control Survey, which asks respondents about their most recent interprovincial move. The results...

... of an event and the other of the timing of the event. We illustrate the application of the model through an analysis of the effects of women s characteristics and of the acceptance of a one-child certificate on the birth of second children in China. Both factors affect the probability of having a second child...

...Alice Goldstein; Michael White; Sidney Goldstein Abstract Despite China s one-child family planning policy, the nation experienced a slight rise in the birth rate in the mid-1980s. Many observers attributed this rise to the heightened fertility of those rural-to-urban migrants who moved without...

...Ansley J. Coale; Judith Banister Abstract This paper seeks to explain the dearth of females in the population of China in cohorts born from the late 1930s to the present. We demonstrate that in virtually all cohorts. the shortage of females in comparison with males is revealed when the cohort...

...Herbert L. Smith Abstract Coale and Banister argue that in China, elevated sex ratios in retrospective surveys are in part a function of collecting birth histories in a culture in which the definition of a birth may exclude mortality shortly after birth: an infant death in the West may...

...Rosemary Santana Cooney; Jiali Li Abstract This research analyzes how type of household registration, which reflects the degree of government control, affects compliance with China’s “one child” policy for women at risk during the first decade of implementation. Although socioeconomic and cultural...

... 2022 This is an open access article distributed under the terms of a Creative Commons license (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0). Educational assortative mating Horizontal stratification in higher education Higher education expansion Gender gap in higher education China Trends and variances...

...Andrew Francis-Tan; Zheng Mu Abstract Ethnic identity is a highly contested issue in China. Yet, the literature on the social construction of ethnoracial identity is dominated by research on the Americas. In this study, we investigate patterns of ethnic identification among children of interethnic...

.... ( 1958 ). Lineage Organization in Southeastern China . London : The Athlone Press . Freedman , M. ( 1966 ). Chinese Lineage and Society: Fukien and Kwangtung . New York : Humanities Press . Herrnalin, A.I., M.B. Ofstedal, and L. Chi. 1992. “Kin Availability of the Elderly in Taiwan...

...Qian Song; James P. Smith Abstract Given that Chinese migrants with rural hukou status are not considered full citizens in their urban destinations, rural-urban hukou conversion signifies full citizenship attainment in urban China. We assess causal effects of three major types of urban hukou...

...Ansley J. Coale; Shaomin Li Abstract When mortality rates by age are calculated from recorded deaths and enumerated populations, rates at higher ages are typically in error because of misstated ages. Mortality rates for China in 1981 have been calculated from the number of deaths in 1981 in each...

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... initially widen gender gaps. Analyzing cross-sectional surveys and time-series data from China, this article indicates the relevance of both perspectives: while girls’ educational opportunities were clearly more responsive than boys’ to better household economic circumstances, the era of market transition...

...Xiaogang Wu; Donald J. Treiman Abstract The Chinese household registration system (hukou), which divides the population into “agricultural” and “nonagricultural” sectors, may be the most important determinant of differential privileges in state socialist China, determining access to good jobs...

...Zeng Yi; Wu Deqing Abstract This paper estimates and discusses divorce measures in China and its 30 provinces since 1980. The propensity for divorce in China increased 42% between 1982 and 1990. Substantial increases in divorce were observed in all provinces except Xinjiang and Shanxi. We found...

..., REPUBLIC OF CHINA P. T. Liu Department of Biostatistics, Johns Hopkins University School of Hygiene and Public Health, Baltimore, Maryland 21205 L. P. Chow Department of Population Dynamics, Johns Hopkins University School of Hygiene and PUblic Health, Baltimore, Maryland 21205 Abstract-Assuming three...

...H. Yuan Tien 13 1 2011 © Population Association of America 1964 1964 Resumen A fin de aliviar el problema planteado por el crecimiento urbano quees mas rapido queel aumento de la ocupaci6n en actividades no agricolas, el Gobierno de la China Continental instituyó en 1955 un...

...Chia -Lin Pan AN ESTIMATE OF THE LONG-TERM CRUDE BIRTH RATE OF THE AGRICULTURAL POPULATION OF CHINA CHIA-LIN PAN· United Nations Population Division RESUMEN Este articulo presenta una estimaci6n de la rata crudadenacimiento a largo plazode la poblaci6n agricola de la Chuna en base a un buen...

...Emily Hannum Abstract Using evidence about educational disparities, this article demonstrates the need for attention to minority populations in studies of social stratification in China. Analyses of data from a 1992 survey of children demonstrate substantial ethnic differences in enrollment among...

...Emily Hannum; Yu Xie Abstract The debate on market reforms and social stratification in China has paid very little attention to China’s ethnic minorities. We explored rising occupational stratification by ethnicity in the Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region. Analyses of census data from 1982 and 1990...