Sex Ratios at Birth in China
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Fertility transition in China deviates from the classical model in two ways. First, fertility decline in China was extraordinarily rapid with low level of socio-economic development; second, the change has been from a high fertility regime to a low and sex-selective pattern of childbearing. The two processes are directly the result from China’s family planning program, which is the most stringent in the world, largely coercive, and has reached all sectors of the population. However, the similar two demographic processes also occurred in South Korea and Taiwan, despite the fact that neither has a heavy-handed family planning program resembling that carried out in Mainland China.
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