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Quanbao Jiang

Professor of Demography, Institute for Population and Development Studies, Xi’an Jiaotong University (China) • Personal webpage • recluse_jqb(at)126.com•
Health and mortality

Increasing health expectancies in China

May 12, 2025 Yu Guo, Li Mei and Quanbao Jiang
china, Gender issues, Health, Mortality, Old age

The gradual increase in life expectancy and the accelerating pace of population aging pose significant challenges to economies, health systems, and healthcare infrastructure all over the world and, as Yu … Read more

Fertility and reproduction

Breaking down the decline in fertility and births in China

March 10, 2021September 30, 2019 Quanbao Jiang and Yang Shucai
Asia, Children, china, Family

Marriage and childbearing postponement have contributed significantly to China’s fertility decline, and will continue to do so in the future. With the fall in the number of women of childbearing … Read more

one child policy china
Fertility and reproduction

China after the one-child policy: parents bereaved of their only child

March 4, 2021September 12, 2016 Quanbao Jiang, Yan Wei and Stuart Gietel-Basten
Asia, Children, population, Reproduction, Welfare

In 1980, China launched its national one-child policy, in response to both a huge concern about the prospects of rapid population growth impacting on resources and a desire to increase … Read more

Fertility and reproduction

Son preference as a new twist in China’s low fertility

March 4, 2021May 16, 2016 Quanbao Jiang, Ying Li and Jesús J. Sánchez-Barricarte
Asia, Children, china, Fertility, Reproduction

China is now facing the challenge of low fertility. Its total fertility rate first fell below replacement level in the early 1990s, and had dropped to only 1.18 children per … Read more

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