Do Fertility Control Policies Affect Health in Old Age? Evidence from China's One‐Child Experiment
研究中国独生子女政策导致的生育率下降对中老年父母健康的影响，发现子女数量减少对自评健康有正面作用，但对其他健康指标无显著影响。
How do fertility control policies contribute to the welfare of women, and their husbands, particularly as they get older? We consider whether the reduction in fertility resulting from population control policies has had any effect on the health of elderly parents in China. In particular, we examine the influence of this fertility decline, experienced due to China's one-child policy, on several measures of the health of parents in middle and old age. Overall, our results suggest that having fewer children has a positive effect on self-reported parental health but generally no effect on other measures of health. The results also suggest that upstream financial transfers have a positive effect on several measures of parental health.