Survival of the Confucians: social status and fertility in China, 1400-1900
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Keywords
fertility; social status; marriages; reproductive success; Malthusian mechanism; China;All these keywords.
JEL classification:
- J13 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Demographic Economics - - - Fertility; Family Planning; Child Care; Children; Youth
- J12 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Demographic Economics - - - Marriage; Marital Dissolution; Family Structure
- N35 - Economic History - - Labor and Consumers, Demography, Education, Health, Welfare, Income, Wealth, Religion, and Philanthropy - - - Asia including Middle East
NEP fields
This paper has been announced in the following NEP Reports:- NEP-CNA-2020-04-27 (China)
- NEP-DEM-2020-04-27 (Demographic Economics)
- NEP-EVO-2020-04-27 (Evolutionary Economics)
- NEP-GRO-2020-04-27 (Economic Growth)
- NEP-HIS-2020-04-27 (Business, Economic and Financial History)
- NEP-TRA-2020-04-27 (Transition Economics)
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