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Is Demography Just a Numerical Exercise? Numbers, Politics, and Legacies of China’s One-Child Policy
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Demography (2018) 55 (2): 693–719.
Published: 05 April 2018
... and Development Review , 24 , 271 – 291 . 10.2307/2807974 Bongaarts J. , & Greenhalgh S. ( 1985 ). An alternative to the one-child policy in China . Population and Development Review , 11 , 585 – 617 . 10.2307/1973456 Bongaarts J. , & Sinding S. W. ( 2011...
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Estimating the Effect of the One-Child Policy on the Sex Ratio Imbalance in China: Identification Based on the Difference-in-Differences
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Demography (2011) 48 (4): 1535–1557.
Published: 19 August 2011
...Hongbin Li; Junjian Yi; Junsen Zhang Abstract In China, the male-biased sex ratio has increased significantly. Because the one-child policy applies only to the Han Chinese but not to minorities, this unique affirmative policy allows us to identify the causal effect of the one-child policy...
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View articletitled, Estimating the Effect of the <span class="search-highlight">One</span>-<span class="search-highlight">Child</span> <span class="search-highlight">Policy</span> on the Sex Ratio Imbalance in China: Identification Based on the Difference-in-Differences
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Household Registration Type and Compliance with the “One Child” Policy in China, 1979–1988
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Demography (1994) 31 (1): 21–32.
Published: 01 February 1994
...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...
View articletitled, Household Registration Type and Compliance with the “<span class="search-highlight">One</span> <span class="search-highlight">Child</span>” <span class="search-highlight">Policy</span> in China, 1979–1988
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Estimating a Dynamic Model of Sex Selection in China
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Demography (2011) 48 (2): 783–811.
Published: 19 May 2011
...Avraham Ebenstein Abstract High ratios of males to females in China, which have historically concerned researchers (Sen 1990 ), have increased in the wake of China’s one-child policy, which began in 1979. Chinese policymakers are currently attempting to correct the imbalance in the sex ratio...
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Has the Chinese family planning policy been successful in changing fertility preferences?
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Demography (2002) 39 (3): 557–572.
Published: 01 August 2002
...M. Giovanna Merli; Herbert L. Smith Abstract Has China’s strict one-child policy been successful in changing fertility preferences? Using linked data from surveys conducted in four counties of northern China in 1991 and 1994, we compare reproductive behavior against prior fertility preferences...
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Policy-Induced Fertility Suppression and Marital Satisfaction: Evidence From a Natural Experiment in China
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Demography (2024) 61 (6): 2027–2051.
Published: 01 December 2024
...’ marital satisfaction improves when the potential marital utility on fertility is enhanced following the transition from the one-child to the universal two-child policy in China. Using a difference-in-differences design, the study finds that men who desire multiple children experience increased marital...
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The Astonishing Population Averted by China’s Birth Restrictions: Estimates, Nightmares, and Reprogrammed Ambitions
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Demography (2017) 54 (4): 1375–1400.
Published: 31 July 2017
... Association of America 2017 2017 China Birth planning Fertility transition One-child policy Coercion China launched an unprecedented program to control its population in 1971, convinced that this was its key to prosperity and the restoration of a long-lost global power (Aird 1990 ; Banister...
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Migration, fertility, and state policy in Hubei Province, China
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Demography (1997) 34 (4): 481–491.
Published: 01 November 1997
...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...
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Examining Ethnicity: Patterns of Minority Identification Among Children of Interethnic Marriages in China
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Demography (2022) 59 (4): 1431–1457.
Published: 01 August 2022
... public policies regarding political representation, fertility, employment, and education ( Zang 2015 ). Perhaps the most salient was the one-child policy (OCP). Most provinces allowed minority couples to have more than one child ( Greenhalgh 2008 ). However, the importance of the OCP declined over time...
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A Sibling Death in the Family: Common and Consequential
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Demography (2013) 50 (3): 803–826.
Published: 17 October 2012
... policies induce more human capital investment? Twins, birth weight and China’s “one-child” policy . Review of Economic Studies , 76 , 1149 – 1174 . 10.1111/j.1467-937X.2009.00563.x Rossiter , L. , & Sharpe , D. ( 2001 ). The siblings of individuals with mental retardation...
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The perceived impact of child care costs on women’s labor supply and fertility
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Demography (1992) 29 (4): 523–543.
Published: 01 November 1992
..., and those willing to entrust the care of their children to nonfamily members. Only one-tenth of the sample reported a similar child care constraint on fertility, a phenomenon unrelated to income but relatively prevalent among women with strong labor force attachment. The results suggest that policies...
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Forensic demography and civil rights
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Demography (1967) 4 (1): 351–359.
Published: 01 March 1967
... at least one “parentless” child, houses 6.8 persons and has an annual income of $1,429. This allows less than $250 annually per person. Tuition for just one child eats up more than one person’s yearly allotment. These data showed that the law, in fact, did discriminate racially, since most of the persons...
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Magic Moment? Maternal Marriage for Children Born Out of Wedlock
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Demography (2014) 51 (4): 1345–1356.
Published: 03 July 2014
... out of wedlock. Data came from the National Survey of Family Growth on 5,255 children born nonmaritally. By age 15, 29 % of children born nonmaritally experienced a biological-father marriage, and 36 % experienced a stepfather marriage. Stepfather marriages occurred much later in a child’s life—one...
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Parental Well-being Surrounding First Birth as a Determinant of Further Parity Progression
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Demography (2015) 52 (4): 1147–1166.
Published: 04 August 2015
...Rachel Margolis; Mikko Myrskylä Abstract A major component driving cross-country fertility differences in the developed world is differences in the probability of having additional children among those who have one. Why do people stop at having only one child? We hypothesize that the experience...
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The Effect of the Earned Income Tax Credit on Housing and Living Arrangements
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Demography (2019) 56 (4): 1303–1326.
Published: 17 June 2019
... http://www.cbpp.org/research/federal-tax/policy-basics-the-earned-income-tax-credit Chase-Lansdale P. L. , Brooks-Gunn J. , & Zamsky E. S. ( 1994 ). Young African-American multigenerational families in poverty: Quality of mothering and grandmothering . Child Development , 65...
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Growing and Learning When Consumption Is Seasonal: Long-Term Evidence From Tanzania
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Demography (2018) 55 (3): 1091–1118.
Published: 14 May 2018
... % of the magnitudes of the positive effects of greater average consumption. Put differently, children expected to have identical human capital based on annualized consumption measures will have substantially different outcomes if one child’s consumption is more seasonal. We discuss implications for measurement...
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Single Motherhood and Child Mortality in Sub-Saharan Africa: A Life Course Perspective
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Demography (2013) 50 (5): 1521–1549.
Published: 10 July 2013
... over women’s life course and investigate the relationship between single motherhood and child mortality in 11 countries in sub-Saharan Africa. Although a mere 5 % of women in Ethiopia have a premarital birth, one in three women in Liberia will become mothers before first marriage. Compared...
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If Science Had Come First: A Billion Person Fable for the Ages (A Reply to Comments)
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Demography (2018) 55 (2): 743–768.
Published: 05 April 2018
... population growth, the one-child policy . . . has created perhaps as many as 100 million of China’s 150 million one-child families.” The second part of this statement is incompatible with the first part. If two out of three Chinese couples with only one child would have had a second without policy...
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Demography (2024) 61 (3): 797–827.
Published: 01 June 2024
... Freely available online through the Demography open access option. Sibling Family structure Depressive symptoms Sex One-Child Policy Chinese families are changing, beset by unprecedented declines in kin availability and rapid population aging ( Eberstadt and Verdery 2023 ; Peng 2011...
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Composition of analytic sample for household expenditure per capita, by tre...
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in Parental Investment After the Birth of a Sibling: The Effect of Family Size in Low-Fertility China
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Published: 29 October 2020
Fig. 5 Composition of analytic sample for household expenditure per capita, by treatment status (never had a sibling vs. had a sibling) and timing of the treatment. In November 2013, couples in which at least one of the partners was an only-child were allowed to have two children. In October
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