Quanbao JiangProfessor of Demography, Institute for Population and Development Studies, Xi’an Jiaotong University (China) • Personal webpage • recluse_jqb(at)126.com•
Professor of Demography, Institute for Population and Development Studies, Xi’an Jiaotong University (China) • Personal webpage • recluse_jqb(at)126.com•
Breaking down the decline in fertility and births in China
Une décomposition du recul de la fécondité et de la natalité en Chine
Quanbao Jiang, Yang Shucai

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 age, the annual number of births has decreased likewise.
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China after the one-child policy: parents bereaved of their only child
Perdre son enfant unique en Chine
Quanbao Jiang, Yan Wei, Stuart Gietel-Basten

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 GDP per capita.
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Son preference as a new twist in China’s low fertility
La préférence pour les fils et la faible fécondité en Chine
Quanbao Jiang, Ying Li, Jesús J. Sánchez-Barricarte

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 woman by 2010 (or, possibly, 1.5, taking account of possible underreporting; Cai, 2013). Among the drivers of fertility decline, birth control policy is considered by
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