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The risk of mothers: losing an only child in China

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dc.affiliation.dptoUC3M. Departamento de Análisis Sociales
dc.contributor.authorJiang, Quanbao
dc.contributor.authorLi, Ying
dc.contributor.authorSánchez Barricarte, Jesús Javier
dc.contributor.funderMinisterio de Economía y Competitividad (España)es
dc.date.accessioned2022-05-25T14:01:29Z
dc.date.available2022-05-25T14:01:29Z
dc.date.issued2014-07-01
dc.description.abstractChina’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.en
dc.description.sponsorshipThis work was supported by the 985-3 Project of Xi'an Jiaotong University, and the Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities. It was also supported by the Spanish Ministry of Economy and Competitiveness (CSO2012-31206).en
dc.identifier.bibliographicCitationJiang, 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.es
dc.identifier.doihttps://doi.org/10.1017/S0021932013000540
dc.identifier.issn0021-9320
dc.identifier.publicationfirstpage531es
dc.identifier.publicationissue4es
dc.identifier.publicationlastpage545es
dc.identifier.publicationtitleJOURNAL OF BIOSOCIAL SCIENCEen
dc.identifier.publicationvolume46es
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10016/34901
dc.identifier.uxxiAR/0000015318
dc.language.isoenges
dc.publisherCambridge University Pressen
dc.relation.projectIDGobierno de España. CSO2012-31206es
dc.rights© Cambridge University Press 2013en
dc.rightsAtribución-NoComercial-SinDerivadas 3.0 España*
dc.rights.accessRightsopen accessen
dc.rights.urihttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/es/*
dc.subject.ecienciaSociologíaes
dc.subject.otherGender-Differenceses
dc.subject.otherFertility policyen
dc.subject.otherHealthen
dc.subject.otherPersonalityen
dc.subject.otherMortalityen
dc.subject.otherOptionsen
dc.subject.otherCensusen
dc.titleThe risk of mothers: losing an only child in Chinaen
dc.typeresearch article*
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