Is Demography Just a Numerical Exercise? Numbers, Politics, and Legacies of China's One-Child Policy

Feng Wang^{1

2}, Yong Cai³, Ke Shen², Stuart Gietel-Basten⁴

Affiliations

¹ Department of Sociology, University of California, Irvine, CA, USA.
² School of Social Development and Public Policy, Fudan University, Shanghai, China.
³ Department of Sociology, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC, USA. caiyong@unc.edu.
⁴ Division of Social Science, The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Clear Water Bay, Hong Kong.

Comment

Feng Wang et al. Demography. 2018 Apr.

. 2018 Apr;55(2):693-719.

doi: 10.1007/s13524-018-0658-7.

Feng Wang^{1

2}, Yong Cai³, Ke Shen², Stuart Gietel-Basten⁴

¹ Department of Sociology, University of California, Irvine, CA, USA.
² School of Social Development and Public Policy, Fudan University, Shanghai, China.
³ Department of Sociology, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC, USA. caiyong@unc.edu.
⁴ Division of Social Science, The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Clear Water Bay, Hong Kong.

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