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Title: Land Reform and Sex Selection in China

Citation Type: Working Paper

Publication Year: 2013

Abstract: Following the death of Mao in 1976, abandonment of collective farming lifted millions from poverty and heralded sweeping pro-market policies. How did Chinas excess in male births respond to rural land reform? In newly-available data from over 1,000 counties, a second child following a daughter was 5.5 percent more likely to be a boy after land reform, doubling the prevailing rate of sex selection. Mothers with higher levels of education were substantially more likely to select sons than were less educated mothers. The One Child Policy was implemented over the same time period and is frequently blamed for increased sex ratios during the early 1980s. Our results point to Chinas watershed economic liberalization as a more likely culprit.

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Authors: Almond, Douglas; Li, Hongbin; Zhang, Shung

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Publication Number: 19153

Institution: National Bureau of Economic Research

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Publisher Location: Cambridge, MA

Data Collections: IPUMS International

Topics: Family and Marriage, Housing and Segregation

Countries: China

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