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Looking Locally at China's One-Child Policy
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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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“In reality, it became the rule of the land, with few exceptions, most notably ethnic minorities and rural couples with the first child as a girl (Peng 1991, Short & Zhai 1998, Scharping 2003, Gu et al. 2007).”
From The Social and Sociological Consequences of China's One-Child Policy (2021) · cites this paper as Short & Zhai 1998
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“Women who proceed with an unapproved pregnancy are known to be reluctant to use antenatal and obstetric services because they fear they will face pressure to have an abortion or fines for violating the one-child policy. 9,10”
From The Effect of China's One-Child Family Policy after 25 Years (2005) · cites this paper as [10]
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The C hina H ealth and N utrition S urvey, 1989–2011
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Metadata
- 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)
- OpenAlex
- W2004104386
- Cited by
- 139
- References
- 21
- Citations by year
- 2026: 2 · 2025: 9 · 2024: 2 · 2023: 5 · 2022: 7 · 2021: 8 · 2020: 4 · 2019: 10 · 2018: 3 · 2017: 8 · 2016: 5 · 2015: 4 · 2014: 9 · 2013: 5 · 2012: 13
- 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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