Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/279027 
Year of Publication: 
2023
Series/Report no.: 
IZA Discussion Papers No. 16329
Publisher: 
Institute of Labor Economics (IZA), Bonn
Abstract: 
We examine whether women exposed to China's one-child policy (OCP) change their fertility decisions when they migrate to a country without fertility restrictions. Using American Community Survey data (2010–2020), we compare the childbearing decisions of Chinese-born women with varying degrees of exposure before migrating to the US to each other and a control group of other Asian immigrants. We find that Chinese women aged 35-45 exposed to the OCP for a longer duration have significantly fewer children than women who were not exposed to the OCP. These findings are robust to several specification checks.
Subjects: 
fertility
one-child policy
immigrants
China
JEL: 
F22
I15
J13
N35
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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