The One-Child Policy Amplifies Economic Inequality Across Generations in China

The One Child Policy and Family Formation in Urban China The One Child Policy and Family Formation in Urban China

The Chinese government implemented the One Child Policy in an attempt to stave off population explosion and its potential negative economic consequences on their infant economy in 1979. This article examines the consequences of this policy on marital matching and family size decisions. Using a simple General Equilibrium model, we show how by constraining marital output on the quantity of childr...

The One-Child Policy and Privatization of Education in China

China’s one-child policy is one of the most signifi cant, yet controversial, programs of planned fertility. While the focus of the controversy is on the nature of the policy (for example, whether the policy is humane, or whether it violates the basic human rights of individual freedom), the impact of such population control program on China’s educational policy and practices is understudied. Mo...

Losing an only child: the one-child policy and elderly care in China.

China has had the one-child policy for more than 30 years. It reduced China's population growth within a short period of time and promoted economic development. However, it has also led to difficulties, and this paper focuses on those which pertain to ageing and losing one's only child. Approximately one million families have lost their only child in China. They suffer mentally and physically, ...

The one child family policy.

China's One-Child Policy

In September 1979, China?s Fifth National People?s Congress passed a policy that encouraged one-child families. Following this decision from the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), campaigns were initiated to implement the One-Child Policy nationwide. This initiative constituted the most massive governmental attempt to control human fertility and reproduction in human history. These campaigns priori...