Economic Reforms and Fertility Behaviour

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Economic Reforms and Fertility Behaviour is written by Weiguo Zhang and published by Routledge. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 1134245025 (ISBN 10) and 9781134245024 (ISBN 13).

Based on an intensive fieldwork in a southern Hebei village in northern China (1992/3), the author takes an institutional approach and focuses on the way deliberate Chinese state policies driven by new economic and social agendas since the late 1970s have impacted on marriage, family relations and consequently on the way fertility trends have been adversely affected; the study is also very much concerned with the human dimension and the way in which such social and economic changes are perceived and applied in a rural community. The research presented in this study goes a long way to unravelling the puzzle concerning the reasons for a very rapid decline in Chinese fertility rates, contrasting sharply with a very different fertility transition within western cultures.