Publication: The risk of mothers: losing an only child in China
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2014-07-01
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Cambridge University Press
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Abstract
China’s one-child policy has been quite successful in bringing down
the country’s fertility level but has produced a large number of one-child families.
The risk of one-child families losing their only child has not received enough
attention. In this paper, using an extension of Goldman & Lord (1983)’s
method to measure widowhood, period life-table data from China’s 2000
population census are used to examine age-specific and cumulative probabilities
of mothers losing their only child. It is found that a mother faces a 14.94%
probability of losing a son, and 12.21% probability of losing a daughter. As
the age of first-time mothers increases, the probability of losing a child declines.
Urban and rural mothers have different indices regarding the loss of children.
Based on these findings the prospects for China’s one-child policy are discussed.
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Gender-Differences, Fertility policy, Health, Personality, Mortality, Options, Census
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Jiang, Q., Li, Y., & Sánchez-Barricarte, J. J. (2014). The risk of mothers losing an only in China. Journal of Biosocial Science, 46 (4), pp. 531-545.