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The Impact of Institutional Reform from 1979 to 1987 on Fertility in Rural China

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  • Schultz, T.P.
  • Ti, Z.

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This empirical study brings together data on the local timing of the rural household responsibility system (HRS) reforms in China from 1979 to 1987, and assesses the association of the local reforms with individual parity-specific fertility changes as measured in the in-depth-fertility survey. Fertility appears to have increased slightly in 1982-84, but declined in 1985-87, in the wake of these significant economic reforms. It is hypothesized that the reforms increased the private monetary and opportunity cost of childbearing, intensified market competition for the adoption of new production technologies that encouraged parents to better educate their children, while increasing the mobility of the rural labor force and thereby discouraging and delaying childbearing among rural Chinese.

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  • Schultz, T.P. & Ti, Z., 1999. "The Impact of Institutional Reform from 1979 to 1987 on Fertility in Rural China," Papers 804, Yale - Economic Growth Center.
    • Handle: RePEc:fth:yalegr:804
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    1. T. Paul Schultz, 2003. "Human Resources in China: The Birth Quota, Returns to Schooling, and Migration," Working Papers 855, Economic Growth Center, Yale University.
    2. Hong Liu & Lili Liu & Fei Wang, 2023. "Housing wealth and fertility: evidence from China," Journal of Population Economics, Springer;European Society for Population Economics, vol. 36(1), pages 359-395, January.

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    DEMOGRAPHY ; POLITICAL ECONOMY;

    JEL classification:

    • J10 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Demographic Economics - - - General
    • J11 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Demographic Economics - - - Demographic Trends, Macroeconomic Effects, and Forecasts

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