Abandoned children in China: the son-preference culture and the gender-differentiated impacts of the one-child policy

Abstract China has experienced an upsurge in child abandonment since the late 1970s in parallel with its one-child policy (OCP) and market reforms. Due to the scarcity of individual-level data, the literature focuses on informal adoption and child trafficking. This study first demonstrates the spati...

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Main Authors: Mei Yang, Xinming Xia, Yi Zhou
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Springer Nature 2023-08-01
Series:Humanities & Social Sciences Communications
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1057/s41599-023-02015-z