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Yasheng Huang on the Development of the Chinese State

Conversations with Tyler

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Why Don't the Chinese Want to Have More Children?

Part of it is the socialization of the norm because of the one-child policy that they instituted in the late 1970s. Japan has a very low fertility rate, but China's per capita GDP is much higher. The nature of the Chinese economy and the Japanese economy is very land-intensive. And there's a cultural norm that you need to have your own housing to be able to get married.

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