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Frontiers in Psychology, 2021

Journal of Research in Childhood Education, 1991

This study reviews the literature on the social and behavioral characteristics of only children in China. Of 16 studies that reported differences in the characteristics of only and non-only children, only 2 indicated that only children exhibited more socially desirable behaviors than did non-only children. The remaining studies reported that, compared with non-only children, only children weie more spoiled, more selfish, less independent, and showed less emotional well-being. However, 13 studies found no differences between only and non-only children. These studies generally concluded that the number of misbehaving children is smaller than the number of well-behaved children regardless of sibling status; and the differences between only and non-only children are quantitative rather than qualitative, and less than the differences within the groups themselves. Further research must consider: (1) the effects of multiple factors, such as parents' formal certific.te for having only one r.hild, the one-child policy itself, and the availability of playmates; (2) children as :4r..tive interactors with their environment; and (3) cultural differences between Chinese and Western children. Futtre research must correct the methodological shortcomings of exis.t

Science, 2013

We document that China's One-Child Policy, one of the most radical approaches to limiting population growth, has produced significantly less trusting, less trustworthy, more riskaverse, less competitive, more pessimistic, and less conscientious individuals. Our data were collected

1991

This study reviews the literature on the social and behavioral characteristics of only children in China. Of 16 studies that reported differences in the characteristics of only and non-only children, only 2 indicated that only children exhibited more socially desirable behaviors than did non-only children. The remaining studies reported that, compared with non-only children, only children weie more spoiled, more selfish, less independent, and showed less emotional well-being. However, 13 studies found no differences between only and non-only children. These studies generally concluded that the number of misbehaving children is smaller than the number of well-behaved children regardless of sibling status; and the differences between only and non-only children are quantitative rather than qualitative, and less than the differences within the groups themselves. Further research must consider: (1) the effects of multiple factors, such as parents' formal certific.te for having only one r.hild, the one-child policy itself, and the availability of playmates; (2) children as :4r..tive interactors with their environment; and (3) cultural differences between Chinese and Western children. Futtre research must correct the methodological shortcomings of exis.t

Journal of Biosocial Science, 1986

SummaryThe campaign for one-child families in the People's Republic of China has created world-wide interest. This study compares the general rates of single-child families in China and in 60 other countries and shows that…

BMJ open, 2012

To study the influence of population policy and boy preference on the sibling structure, that is, in which order and combinations boys and girls are born into families. A population-based survey with a representative sample of new mothers in 2008-2009 in rural China. Two provinces (Anhui and Shaanxi) where authorisation for a second child was usually given if the first birth was a daughter and one province (Chongqing) where only one child was authorised. The mothers giving birth in 2008-2009 were identified from family planning and hospital birth registers (including births outside hospitals) (n=5049). Of them, 3673 were interviewed by trained medical university staff members and students using structured questionnaire (response rate 73%). Children's distribution by sex and families' distribution by children's birth order and sex composition were calculated and compared with theoretical values based on the assumption that family planning policy is fully followed. The rec...

Contemporary Social Science, 2018

The impact of China's one-child policy on intergenerational and gender relations

2000

... Interestingly, even nuclear families often have close social and economic relationships with ... Since the implementation of the one-child-per-family policy in China in the late 1970s, the number of children who do not have siblings has increased rapidly in China, particularly in ...

PLOS ONE

In this paper, we present evidence from a lab-in-the-field experiment of the effects of the Chinese one-child policy on adults in China who were born just before and after the introduction of the policy. We measure risk, uncertainty, and time preferences, as well as subjects’ preferences in the social domain, i.e., concerning competitiveness, cooperation, and bargaining. We sampled people from three Chinese provinces born both before and after the introduction of the policy in 1979. We utilize the fact that the one-child policy was introduced at different times and with different degrees of strictness in different provinces. Overall, we find a statistically significant effect only on risk and uncertainty aversion and not on any other preferences in the experiments: Those born after the introduction of the one-child policy are less risk and uncertainty averse. These results hold for various robustness checks and heterogeneity tests. Hence, our results do not confirm the general wisdo...