If all we knew about women was what we read in Demography, what would we know?

SC Watkins - Demography, 1993 - Springer
How do women appear on the pages of Demography? This is not a question of authorship,
of whether the articles published in Demography by women differ from those published by …

[PDF][PDF] China's population: new trends and challenges

NE Riley - 2004 - Citeseer
Founded in 1929, the Population Reference Bureau is the leader in providing timely and
objective information on US and international population trends and their implications. PRB …

The evolution of China's one-child policy and its effects on family outcomes

J Zhang - Journal of Economic Perspectives, 2017 - aeaweb.org
In 1979, China introduced its unprecedented one-child policy, under which households
exceeding the birth quota were penalized. However, estimating the effect of this policy on …

China's below‐replacement fertility: Government policy or socioeconomic development?

Y Cai - Population and development review, 2010 - Wiley Online Library
The article challenges the notion that below‐replacement fertility and its local variation in
China are primarily attributable to the government's birth planning policy. Data from the 2000 …

The contribution of population health and demographic change to economic growth in China and India

DE Bloom, D Canning, L Hu, Y Liu, A Mahal… - Journal of Comparative …, 2010 - Elsevier
We find that a cross-country model of economic growth successfully tracks the growth
takeoffs in China and India. The major drivers of the predicted takeoffs are improved health …

China's family planning policies and their labor market consequences

F Wang, L Zhao, Z Zhao - Journal of Population Economics, 2017 - Springer
China initiated its family planning policy in 1962 and its one-child policy in 1980, and it
allowed all couples to have two children as of 1 January 2016. This paper systematically …

Defying gender norms in rural Bangladesh: A social demographic analysis

D Balk - Population studies, 1997 - Taylor & Francis
In the study of contemporary low-fertility societies, it has been observed that gender equality
is a consequence-perhaps incidental-of low fertility (eg Davis 1984; Keyfitz 1986). In …

Does population control lead to better child quality? Evidence from China's one-child policy enforcement

B Li, H Zhang - Journal of Comparative Economics, 2017 - Elsevier
Scholarly evidence on the quantity-quality trade-off is mixed in part because of the
identification challenge due to endogenous family size. This paper provides new evidence …

China's one-child policy and the changing family

XT Feng, DL Poston Jr, XT Wang - Journal of comparative family …, 2014 - utpjournals.press
China's one-child policy was initiated in late 1979. Since its inception, nearly 150 million
single children have been born in China. It is believed that this generation of only children …

Market transition, government policies, and interprovincial migration in China: 1983-1988

Z Liang, MJ White - Economic Development and Cultural …, 1997 - journals.uchicago.edu
II. Migration Policy and Economic Reforms Migration and population redistribution have
always been major concerns for policy makers and social scientists in China. For years …