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China's sex ratio and crime : behavioral change or financial necessity?
Cameron, Lisa Ann; Meng, Xin; Zhang, Dandan - 2016
This paper uses survey and experimental data from prison inmates and comparable non-inmates to examine the drivers of rising criminality in China. Consistent with socio-biological research on other species, we find that China's high sex-ratios are associated with greater risk-taking and...
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Fertility, household structure, and parental labor supply : evidence from rural China
Li, Hongbin; Yi, Junjian; Zhang, Junsen - 2015
This paper tests the effects of fertility on household structure and parental labor supply in rural China. To solve the … ordinary least squares estimates show a negative correlation between fertility and parental labor supply. Using twinning as a … natural experiment, we do not find evidence on the negative effects of fertility on parental labor supply. By contrast, we …
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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
Study, we identify adults of childbearing age whose fertility was reduced. We find LLF exposure increases the likelihood of … wife's parents residing in the same household. As expected in a patrilineal society, the increase in support is realized by …
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Peer effects and fertility preferences in China : evidence from the China Labor-force Dynamics Survey
Nie, Peng; Wang, Lu; Sousa-Poza, Alfonso - 2020
Despite empirical evidence that individuals form their fertility preferences by observing social norms and interactions … China Labor-force Dynamics Survey to investigate the association between community-level peer effects and fertility … fertility reduces the preference of wanting only one child by 14.3%, whereas it increases the probability of preferring three …
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Exposure to the one-child policy and fertility among Chinese immigrants to the US
Lin, Siyuan; Argys, Laura M.; Averett, Susan - 2023
We examine whether women exposed to China's one-child policy (OCP) change their fertility decisions when they migrate … to a country without fertility restrictions. Using American Community Survey data (2010-2020), we compare the …
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The effect of family size on education : new evidence from China's one child policy
Argys, Laura M.; Averett, Susan - 2015
Chinese fertility and we examine how the OCP has affected the educational attainment of Chinese migrants to the U.S. Using …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011296062
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China's family planning policies and their labor market consequences
Wang, Fei; Zhao, Liqiu; Zhao, Zhong - 2016
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...
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The one-child policy amplifies economic inequality across generations in China
Yu, Yewen; Fan, Yi; Yi, Junjian - 2020
, whose fertility choices are less constrained by the OCP than rich ones, have more children but invest less in human capital … generations as a consequence. Based on nationally representative longitudinal household survey data, our estimation results show …
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Estimating the effect of the one-child policy on sex ratio imbalance in China : identification based on the difference-in-differences
Li, Hongbin; Yi, Junjian; Zhang, Junsen - 2010
In China, the male-biased sex ratio has increased significantly. Because the one-child policy only applied to the Han Chinese but not to minorities, this unique affirmative policy allows us to identify the causal effect of the one-child policy on the increase in sex ratios by a...
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One-child policy and marriage market in China
Han, Jun; Zhao, Zhong - 2021
This study analyzes the effect of one-child policy on marriage market in China, and focuses on leftover situation, marriage age, and the age differential between husband and wife. Taking age of 30 as a cut-off point, the one-child policy has increased the leftover proportion about 1.2%, with...
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