Analysis of China’s one-child policy sparks uproar
Analysis of China’s one-child policy sparks uproar
- October 18, 2017
- Wang Feng, sociology, via Science, Oct. 18, 2017
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Three demographers—Wang Feng of the University of California, Irvine; Cai Yong of the University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill; and Gu Baochang of Renmin University of China in Beijing—set out to challenge this figure. In a 2013 paper in Population and Development Review, they found that in 16 developing countries that started with similar birth rates as China in 1970, the crude birth rate fell to an average of 22 per 1000 by 1998, far below the commission’s estimate.
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