The Effects of Income Level, Income Distribution, Education and Urbanization on Fertility Rates among 28 Administrative Regions of China

Abstract

This paper analyzes the influence of income distribution on fertility behavior using the Chinese provincial data mainly taken from the 1982 Population Census of China. The existing evidence on this important issue is inconclusive. In particular, our use of cross-province data for a single country improves upon the existing literature which employed either cross-country data or individual household data.