The effect of China’s One Child Policy on Sex Selection, Family Size, and the School Enrolment of Daughters
Both China and India, the world’s two most populous countries, have experimented with different family planning policies to limit family size. In this Working Paper by
UNU-WIDER, Nancy Qian addresses the consequences of family size, and the effect of increasing number of children from one to two, on school enrolment in rural China. She shows that the introduction of the
One Child Policy dramatically increased sex selection in favour of boys, and that the Chinese government responded to this by allowing parents who had a daughter as their first child, to try for a second child. One of the results is that children with younger siblings are more likely to be in school than those without.
https://www.wider.unu.edu/sites/default/files/Publications/Working-paper/PDF/wp2017-159.pdf
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