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    Jobs and Kids: Female Employment and Fertility in China
    (SpringerOpen, 2013) Fang, Hai; Eggleston, Karen N.; Rizzo, John A.; Zeckhauser, Richard
    Data on 2,355 married women from the 2006 China Health and Nutrition Survey are used to study how female employment affects fertility in China. China has deep concerns with both population size and female employment, so the relationship between the two should be better understood. Causality flows in both directions. A conceptual model shows how employment prospects affect fertility. Then a well-validated instrumental variable isolates this effect. Female employment reduces a married woman’s preferred number of children by 0.35 on average and her actual number by 0.50. Ramifications for China’s one-child policy are discussed.
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    Female Employment and Fertility in Rural China
    (John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University, 2010) Fang, Hai; Eggleston, Karen N.; Rizzo, John A.; Zeckhauser, Richard
    Data on 2,288 married women from the 2006 China Health and Nutrition Survey are deployed to study how off-farm female employment affects fertility. Such employment reduces a married woman’s actual number of children by 0.64, her preferred number by 0.48, and her probability of having more than one child by 54.8 percent. Causality flows in both directions; hence, we use well validated instrumental variables to estimate employment status. China has deep concerns with both female employment and population size. Moreover, female employment is growing quickly. Hence, its implications for fertility must be understood. Ramifications for China’s one-child policy are discussed.