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Looking Locally at China's One-Child Policy

Short, Susan E., Fengying, Zhai·1998·Studies in Family Planning

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Of all the reforms and policies set in motion in the early 1980s in China, the one-child policy has been called the most far-reaching in its implications for China's population and economic development. Almost two decades later, little is known about what the policy looks like across local neighborhoods and villages. To sketch a more general picture of the one-child policy, this article presents panel data from three waves of the China Health and Nutrition Survey (1989, 1991, and 1993) collected in 167 communities in eight provinces. Local policy, including policy strength and policy incentives and disincentives, is detailed separately for urban and rural areas. These data confirm that no single one-child policy exists; policy varied considerably from place to place and within individual communities during the 1989-93 period.

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Authors: Short, S. E., & Fengying, Z.
Affiliations: Brown University (US)
ORCID: Short, Susan E.
Venue: Studies in Family Planning
Publisher: JSTOR
Published: 1998-12
Volume: 29
Issue: 4
Pages: 373
ISSN: 0039-3665 (ISSN-L)
DOI: 10.2307/172250
OpenAlex: W2004104386
Cited by: 139
References: 21
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FWCI: 3.25
Type: journal article
Language: en
Open access: closed
Locations: Studies in Family Planning (publishedVersion)
PubMed (publishedVersion)
Funders: National Science Foundation
Ford Foundation
Topics: Social Sciences › Gender Studies › Demographic Trends and Gender Preferences
Social Sciences › Political Science and International Relations › China's Socioeconomic Reforms and Governance
Health Sciences › Medicine › Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health › Reproductive Health and Contraception
Keywords: one-child policy, fertility policy, urban-rural differences, China Health and Nutrition Survey, population policy, China
MeSH terms: China, Female, Health Surveys, Housing, Humans, Infant, Newborn, Occupations, Surveys and Questionnaires, Rural Population, Urban Population, Family Planning Policy, Disabled Children, Children with Disabilities

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Looking Locally at China's One-Child Policy

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