This paper examines whether education plays an important role in shaping individuals'
gender role attitudes. We exploit exogenous variation in temporal and geographical impacts …

Intergenerational transmission of human capital from parents to offspring is widely
documented. However, whether there are upward spillovers from children to parents …

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 …

This paper offers robust empirical evidence of a Darwinian pro-natalist mechanism: parents
can improve their old-age support with an additional child. Using the incidence of first-born …

A large body of research has examined the relationship between family size and child well-
being in developing countries, but most of this literature has focused on the consequences …

BACKGROUND China introduced its world-famous One-Child Policy in 1979. However, its
fertility appears to have declined even faster in the early 1970s than it did after 1979. The …

In the second edition of An Introduction to the Geography of Health, Helen Hazen and Peter
Anthamatten explore the ways in which geographic ideas and approaches can inform our …

Despite pervasive evidence of more educated women having lower fertility, it remains
unclear whether education reduces women's fertility. This study presents new evidence of …

We investigate how exposure to the One-Child Policy (OCP) during early adulthood affects
marriage and fertility in China. Exploring fertility penalties across provinces over time and …

In view of its aging population, China initiated in 2012 a relaxed birth control policy after a
three‐decades‐long implementation of the restrictive one‐child policy. This paper examines …