type="main" <p>China has the world's largest oldest-old population, but information on trends in late-life disability is lacking. We use data from the Chinese Longitudinal Healthy Longevity Survey for 1998 to 2008 to determine whether prevalence of limitations with physical functions and daily...</p>

Based on a decomposition of increases in the crude birth rate into components attributable to changes in age structure, marriage pattern, and marital fertility, this article demonstrates that the recent increase in China's crude birth rate is caused mainly by the rising proportion of women of...