Objectives The aim of this study was to describe the sampling strategy as well as
characteristics and the external validity of a representative sample database drawn from the …

STUDY QUESTION What proportion of people want to have a second or third child after the
enactment of the three-child policy in China? SUMMARY ANSWER Under the three-child …

Background On May 31, 2021, the Chinese authorities announced that couples can have up
to three children, aiming to stimulate a rise in fertility levels. However, there is limited …

Background and Purpose As the global fertility rate declines, China has issued two and
three-child policies in the past 10 years. Therefore, this study serves to evaluate fertility …

The timings of historical fertility transitions in different regions are well understood by
demographers, but much less is known regarding their specific features and causes. In the …

Over the past 25 years, technological improvements that have made the collection,
transmission, storage, and analysis of data significantly easier and more cost efficient have …

Pro-market and pro-farmer agrarian reforms enacted in eighteenth century Denmark laid the
basis for rural development but we demonstrate that they also resulted in increased …

Introduction China's one-child policy was replaced by a new universal two-child policy in
2015; however, few studies have addressed the intent to have a second child and resulting …

In 1919–20, the European countries that were neutral in the First World War saw a small
baby bust followed by a small baby boom. The sparse literature on this topic attributes the …

There has been a lack of socioeconomic status (SES) disparity analysis on women in China
with only one child, the family planning target population. In 2008, the National Research …