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Breaking down the decline in fertility and births in China

March 10, 2021September 30, 2019 Quanbao Jiang and 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 … 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