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The Single-child Family Policy in the Countryside

In: China’s One-Child Family Policy

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  • Delia Davin

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As 80 per cent of China’s population is rural and 87.2 per cent of births in China occur in the countryside it is ultimately there that the battle to control population growth will be won or lost.1 Far greater efforts are needed in the villages than in the towns, not only because peasants vastly outnumber city-dwellers, but also because while some conditions historically associated with a rapid fall in fertility are present in the towns, this is not the case in the countryside. In the 1960s, China’s planners, like planners in many other developing countries, saw efficient delivery of the contraceptives and contraceptive education as the main tasks in population control. By the 1970s they had recognised that motivation was the fundamental problem.

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  • Delia Davin, 1985. "The Single-child Family Policy in the Countryside," Palgrave Macmillan Books, in: Elisabeth Croll & Delia Davin & Penny Kane (ed.), China’s One-Child Family Policy, chapter 2, pages 37-82, Palgrave Macmillan.
    • Handle: RePEc:pal:palchp:978-1-349-17900-8_2
    DOI: 10.1007/978-1-349-17900-8_2
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    1. Yishen Liu & Yao Pan, 2016. "Less restrictive birth control, less education? Evidence from ethnic minorities in China," WIDER Working Paper Series 077, World Institute for Development Economic Research (UNU-WIDER).
    2. Haoming Liu, 2014. "The quality–quantity trade-off: evidence from the relaxation of China’s one-child policy," Journal of Population Economics, Springer;European Society for Population Economics, vol. 27(2), pages 565-602, April.
    3. Pan, Yao & Liu, Yishen, 2021. "Birth control, family size and educational stratification: Evidence from the Han and ethnic minorities in China," Economics of Education Review, Elsevier, vol. 81(C).
    4. Weiguo Zhang, 1999. "Economic Reforms and Fertility Behaviour in Rural China: An Anthropological and Demographic Inquiry," European Journal of Population, Springer;European Association for Population Studies, vol. 15(4), pages 317-348, December.
    5. Shi, Jiayi & Li, Ling & Wu, Dandan & Li, Hui, 2021. "Are only children always better? Testing the sibling effects on academic performance in rural Chinese adolescents," Children and Youth Services Review, Elsevier, vol. 131(C).
    6. Yishen Liu & Yao Pan, 2016. "Less restrictive birth control, less education?: Evidence from ethnic minorities in China," WIDER Working Paper Series wp-2016-77, World Institute for Development Economic Research (UNU-WIDER).

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