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

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

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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 Aplicación de métodos geoestadísticos en el modelado espacio-temporal de los niveles de agua subterránea del acuífero Valle de Sébaco, Nicaragua. data, the literature focuses on informal adoption and child trafficking.This study first demonstrates the spatial-temporal trends of child abandonment across over 100,000 self-reported cases spanning 40 years in China collected from an internet platform.

We then examine how the OCP and the long-established clan culture The Mobile Phone Affinity Scale: Enhancement and Refinement influence the incidence of child abandonment at the provincial level.We further compare whether the influences vary across genders.The results indicate that a tougher OCP penalty increases child abandonment, particularly the abandonment of girls.

The influence of the OCP on girl abandonment is weaker in provinces with a strong clan culture, where sex ratios at birth are more unbalanced due to an increased incidence of gender-selective abortions.