1. Re-examination of the Yicheng Two-Child Program.
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Wei, Yan and Zhang, Li
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BIRTH control policy , *FERTILITY decline , *MARRIAGE , *DEMOGRAPHIC change , *BIRTH rate - Abstract
In discussing the main forces shaping rapid fertility decline, current studies take the Yicheng two-child program as an example showing that the role of the birth-control policy in China's fall in fertility is not as strong as commonly thought. Based on a close examination of documentary evidence, this paper demonstrates that the Yicheng program is not vastly different from the national population-control effort with regard to the timing of marriage, the number of children and the childbearing interval. We argue that in Yicheng the two-child policy has done more to effect a demographic transition to low fertility than has socioeconomic development. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2014
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