Whether China's low fertility rate is the consequence of the country's strict population control policy is a puzzling … question. This paper attempts to disentangle the Chinese population control policy's impacts on the fertility rate from …

There have been significant changes in both the fertility rates and fertility perception since 1970s. In this paper, we … examine the relationship between government policies towards fertility and the fertility trends. Total fertility rate, defined … as the number of children per woman, is used as the main fertility trend variable. We use panel data from the United …

under a wide range of fertility and migration scenarios. As policy-based projections rather than forecasts, they aspire not … infl uencing national fertility rates. In countries with particularly low fertility rates or high emigration levels …

China introduced its world-famous One-Child Policy in 1979. However, its fertility appears to have declined even faster … Group in understanding the fertility decline since the early 1970s. In 1970, provinces gradually established an institution … province. We find provinces that formed the leading group earlier also experienced an earlier decline in the fertility rate …