Policy Challenges from Demographic Change in China and India

by Karen Eggleston (Editor)

Overview

The world’s two most populous countries face numerous policy challenges from rapid demographic change, including gender imbalance, population aging, and rapid urbanization. Drawing on social science expertise from China, India, and the United States, the contributors examine the social and economic challenges for policy across a range of domains, from family planning and old-age support to human capital investment, poverty alleviation, and broader issues of governance.

Sections focus on:
• Policy challenges and economic impact
• Fertility and sex imbalance
• Human capital and urbanization
• Population aging

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781931368407
Publisher:	Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc.
Publication date:	08/23/2016
Pages:	174
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 8.90(h) x 0.60(d)

About the Author

Karen Eggleston is Senior Fellow at the Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies (FSI) at Stanford University and Director of the Stanford Asia Health Policy Program at the Shorenstein Asia-Pacific Research Center at FSI. She is also a Fellow with the Center for Innovation in Global Health at Stanford University School of Medicine, and a Faculty Research Fellow of the National Bureau of Economic Research.

Table of Contents

Tables and Figures vii

Abbreviations xi

Contributors xiii

Preface and Acknowledgements xix

Policy Challenges and Economic Impact

1 Policy Challenges from Demographic Change in China and India Karen Eggleston 1

2 The Economic Impact of Demographic Change in China and India Sang-Hyop Lee Qiulin Chen 11

Fertility and Sex Imbalance

3 Fertility, Sex Ratio, and Family Planning Policies in China Zijuan Shang Shuzhuo Li Marcus W. Feldman 33

4 Economic Incentives and the Fertility-Sex Ratio Trade-off S Anukriti 53

Human Capital and Urbanization

5 The Returns to Education in China: Evidence from the 1986 Compulsory Education Law Hai Fang Karen N. Eggleston John A. Rizzo Scott Rozelle Richard J. Zeckhauser 69

Appendix A Descriptive statistics by subpopulations

6 Urban Concerns and Their Impact on Health in India Indrani Gupta Samik Chowdhury 101

Population Aging

7 China's Rural Left-Behind Elderly: Senior Centers and Psychological Well-being Karen Eggleston Huijun Liu Yan Min Bao Jia Tan 121

8 Does Elderly Health Impact Poverty? Evidence from India Indrani Gupta Swadhin Mondal 145

Appendix B Adjusting poverty lines to take into account health expenditure (Wagstaff and Doorslaer [2003])

Index 167