The one-child policy and school attendance in China.

Autor/in	Yang, Juhua
Titel	The one-child policy and school attendance in China.
Quelle	In: Comparative education review, 51 (2007) 4, S. 471-496Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Link als defekt meldenVerfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	online; gedruckt; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0010-4086; 1545-701X
DOI	10.1086/520858
Schlagwörter	Empirische Untersuchung; Methodologie; Geburtenkontrolle; Asien; China; Familienpolitik; Bildungssystem; Strategie; Bildungssystem; Datenanalyse; Methodologie; Kinderfürsorge; Familienpolitik; Förderungsmaßnahme; Datenanalyse; Demografie; Gesellschaftssystem; Kinderfürsorge; Strategie; Jugendlicher; Asien; China
Abstract	In addition to its goal of limiting China's population growth, a key purpose of China's one-child policy is to improve children's well-being. The government has made a strenuous effort to limit parents' childbearing in exchange for the greater opportunities it provides for their only children, including educational opportunities. The official slogan is "you sheng you yu" (give birth to fewer children, but give them better care and education). The underlying rationale is that more resources at the national, community, and household levels will be available for children and that children with fewer siblings will garner more resources and be better off in physical and intellectual development (Peng 1997). Heretofore, researchers and policy makers, those both inside and outside of China, have been concerned mainly with the policy's effect on fertility (for recent examples, see Qiao et al. [2005] and [Gu 2006]). Researchers have established that the policy has successfully curbed population growth. Fertility is below replacement levels, and the proportion of all births that are second and higher parity (i.e., with one or more elder siblings) continues to fall (Guo et al. 2003; Zhang 2007). However, we know much less about the policy's consequences beyond fertility. Yet, as Short et al. (2001, 913) have commented, it is clear that the policy shapes children's well-being by fundamentally shaping family life. (DIPF/Orig.).
Erfasst von	DIPF \| Leibniz-Institut für Bildungsforschung und Bildungsinformation, Frankfurt am Main
Update	2009/2