Facilitating fertility decline through economic development: a principal-agent analysis of local bureaucratic incentives in China’s fertility transition

Abstract Despite close associations, political science had weak explanatory power for fertility transition. It often depicts the political processes of fertility transition as direct and coercive policies and mechanical execution without consideration of indirect bureaucratic processes. Drawing on p...

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Main Authors: Shengyuan Liang, Shanmin Liu, Canmian Liu
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Springer Nature 2023-12-01
Series:Humanities & Social Sciences Communications
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1057/s41599-023-02452-w