Unintended Consequences of China´s One-Child Policy

David Howden and Yang Zhou

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Abstract: This paper gives a brief overview of the family planning policy of China which, although being recently relaxed, still controls a large swath of the population. Unofficially known as the “one-child policy”, the policy resulted when the social strife of the 1970s coupled with a Malthusian pessimism concerning the capability of the still largely closed and isolated Chinese economy to care for itself. In this paper we overview the motivations for the policy, the unfortunate demographic future that it will create, and some policy choices that can be undertaken today to alleviate these issues.

Keywords: one-child policy; labor shortage; free immigration; Malthusian. (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: J11 J13 O21 O53 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2014
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Published in Economic Affairs 34.3(2014): pp. 353-369

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