Migration, fertility, and state policy in Hubei Province, China

Datos Bibliográficos

ID10970525
AutoresAlice Goldstein (Population Studies and Training Center, Brown University, Box 1916, Providence, RI 02912, autor de correspondencia), M J White (0000-0001-9953-2258, Brown University), Michael White (0000-0001-7508-7882, Population Studies and Training Center, Brown University, Box 1916, Providence, RI 02912), Sidney Goldstein (Population Studies and Training Center, Brown University, Box 1916, Providence, RI 02912)
Año1997
Volumen34
Número4
Páginas481-491
Fecha de publicación1997-11-01
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessSí
TipoARTICLE
RevistaDemography (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 0070-3370 • E-ISSN: 1533-7790
EditorialDuke University Press (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.2307/3038304
PMID9545626
OpenAlexW1976278659
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas34
Referencias citadas16

Despite China s one-child family planning policy, the nation experienced a slight rise in the birth rate in the mid-1980s. Many observers attributed this rise to the heightened fertility of those rural-to-urban migrants who moved without a change in registration (temporary migrants), presumably to avoid the surveillance of family planning programs at origin and destination. Using a sequential logit analysis with life-history data from a 1988 survey of Hubei Province, we test this possibility by comparing nonmigrants, permanent migrants, and temporary migrants. While changing family planning policies have a strong impact on timing of first birth and on the likelihood of higher-order births, migrants generally do not have more children than nonmigrants. In fact, migration tends to lower the propensity to have a child. More specifically, the fertility of temporary migrants does not differ significantly from that of other women

Birth rate · China · Demographic economics · Economics · Family planning · Family planning policy · Fertility · Geography · Internal migration · Logistic regression · Logit · Population · Research methodology · Sociology · Total fertility rate · Demographic Trends and Gender Preferences · Demography · Global Maternal and Child Health · Medicine · Migration and Labor Dynamics