Location or Hukou: What Most Limits Fertility of Urban Women in China?

Yun Liang and John Gibson
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Asia and the Pacific Policy Studies from Crawford School of Public Policy, The Australian National University

Abstract: China's fertility rate is below replacement level. The government is attempting to increase this rate by relaxing the one-child policy. China faces a possible tradeoff because further urbanization is needed to raise incomes but may reduce future fertility. We decompose China's rural–urban fertility gaps using both de facto and de jure criteria for defining the urban population. The fertility-depressing effects of holding urban hukou are more than three times larger than effects of urban residence. Less of the rural–urban fertility gap by hukou status is due to differences in characteristics than is the case for the fertility gap by place of residence.

Keywords: fertility; hukou; urbanization; China (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 14 pages
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Published in Asia & the Pacific Policy Studies, Sep 2017, pages 527-540

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