One-child policy

The one-child policy was part of a broad program designed to control the size of the rapidly growing population of the People's Republic of China. Distinct from the family planning policies of most other countries, which focus on providing contraceptive options to help women have the number of children they want, it set a limit on the number of births parents could have, making it the world's most extreme example of population planning. One-child families were first encouraged in some areas in 1978 by Chinese leader Deng Xiaoping, although strict enforcements did not begin until 1980 (after a decade-long two-child …

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RSIS: S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies · 1 September 2021 English

The authors’ views are their own and do not represent the official position of the S. [...] Attracting the Best The rapid modernisation of the PLA has put enormous pressure …

China’s Military Modernisation: Constrained by One-Child Policy By Loro Horta SYNOPSIS While the Chinese military recruitment propaganda. Constraints on Growth: One-Child Policy While better salaries and living conditions officers. China’s aging population and its one-child policy will pose a serious challenge for the PLA PLA in coming years. The one-child policy has created a situation in which one child has to look after two persons. Although Beijing has relaxed the one-child policy, it will take years to reverse its effects


UNU WIDER: United Nations University World Institute for Development Economics Research · 17 August 2017 English

The effect of China’s One Child Policy on sex selection, family size, and the school enrolment of daughters

Working Paper 2017/159 The effect of China’s One Child Policy on sex selection, family size, and the school Working Paper 2017/159 The effect of China’s One Child Policy on sex selection, family size, and the school first document that the introduction of the One Child Policy dramatically increased sex selection in certain family size caused by this relaxation in the One Child Policy increased school enrolment of first-born daughters birth year variation in relaxations of the One Child Policy (OCP). There are two main difficulties. First


Pew Research Center · 1 February 2013 English

China counts cost of one child policy SIGN UP FOR OUR ELECTION In China, one-child policy compounds loss of child for parents


NBER: National Bureau of Economic Research · 25 January 2018 English

Following the introduction of the one-child policy in China, the capital-labor (K/L) ratio of China increased relative to that of India, and, simultaneously, FDI inflows relative to GDP for China versus mechanism works as follows: the reduction in the growth rate of the (urban) labor force due to the one-child policy permanently increases the capital per worker inherited from the previous generation. The resulting

DEMOGRAPHICS AND FDI: LESSONS FROM CHINA'S ONE-CHILD POLICY John B. Donaldson Christos Koulovatianos Demographics and FDI: Lessons from China's One-Child Policy John B. Donaldson, Christos Koulovatianos ABSTRACT Following the introduction of the one-child policy in China, the capital-labor (K/L) ratio of rate of the (urban) labor force due to the one-child policy permanently increases the capital per worker (FDI) �ows. We contrast China�s 1982 mandatory one-child policy decree with India, which initiated a voluntary


NCAER: National Council of Applied Economic Research · 6 February 2018 English

show that the dynamics of the relative FDI flows subsequent to the implementation of China’s one-child policy, as seen in the data, are consistent with neoclassical fundamentals. [...] We net out this possibility labor productivity growth in China and India for the periods preceding and following the 1982 one-child policy intervention.3 We nd the productivity di¤erences to have been very small, allowing us to focus decrease in population growth in one of the two countries, similar to the introduction of the one-child policy in China. [...] 14 A key feature of Figure 2 is the simultaneity in the reversal of the trajectory

mographics and FDI: Les sons from China’s One-Child Policy John Donaldson , Christos Koulovatianos, Jian Demographics and FDI: Lessons from China’s One-Child Policy NCAER Working Paper John Donaldsona, Christos subsequent to the implementation of China’s one-child policy, as seen in the data, are consistent with particular, following the introduction of the one-child policy in China, the capital-labor (K/L) ratio of reduction in the (urban) labor force due to the one-child policy increases the savings per capita. This increases


NCAER: National Council of Applied Economic Research · 6 February 2018 English

show that the dynamics of the relative FDI flows subsequent to the implementation of China’s one-child policy, as seen in the data, are consistent with neoclassical fundamentals. [...] We net out this possibility labor productivity growth in China and India for the periods preceding and following the 1982 one-child policy intervention.3 We nd the productivity di¤erences to have been very small, allowing us to focus decrease in population growth in one of the two countries, similar to the introduction of the one-child policy in China. [...] 14 A key feature of Figure 2 is the simultaneity in the reversal of the trajectory

mographics and FDI: Les sons from China’s One-Child Policy John Donaldson , Christos Koulovatianos, Jian Demographics and FDI: Lessons from China’s One-Child Policy NCAER Working Paper John Donaldsona, Christos subsequent to the implementation of China’s one-child policy, as seen in the data, are consistent with particular, following the introduction of the one-child policy in China, the capital-labor (K/L) ratio of reduction in the (urban) labor force due to the one-child policy increases the savings per capita. This increases


Pew Research Center · 8 August 2013 English

In China, one-child policy compounds loss of child for parents China counts cost of one child policy


AEI: American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research · 30 April 2015 English

This testimony provides analysis of contemporary China’s biologically un-natural sex ratio at birth, and some of the prospective questions arising from this artificially induced gender imbalance.

demographic evolution in the era of the One Child Policy. The general dimensions of what I have information on the gender of every fetus. When the One Child Policy commenced in the early 1980s, sonography or history. Its name notwithstanding, China’s One Child Policy has never actually managed to enforce a control policy. To the extent that China’s One Child Policy successfully coerces parents into having fewer boys at that time was due 3 to the One Child Policy.2 He did not, however, explain how he derived


AEI: American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research · 30 April 2015 English

This testimony provides analysis of contemporary China’s biologically un-natural sex ratio at birth, and some of the prospective questions arising from this artificially induced gender imbalance.


NBER: National Bureau of Economic Research · 28 June 2013 English

We argue that the demographic changes caused by the one child policy (OCP) may not harm China's long-term growth. This attributes to the higher human capital induced by the intergenerational transfer arrangement

CAPITAL AND LONG-TERM GROWTH IN CHINA UNDER THE ONE CHILD POLICY Xi Zhu John Whalley Xiliang Zhao Working Capital and Long-term Growth in China under the One Child Policy Xi Zhu, John Whalley, and Xiliang Zhao NBER that the demographic changes caused by the one child policy (OCP) may not harm China’s long-term growth and Long-term Growth in China under the One Child Policy Abstract We argue that the demographic demographic changes caused by the one child policy (OCP) may not harm China’s long-term growth. This attributes


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