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The Effects of One-Child Policy on the Economy and the Environment in an OLG Framework

2018-03-20

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In this paper we take China’s one child policy as an example and investigate its environmental impact. We develop a model for an economy using a standard overlapping generation model extended with human capital, endogenous fertility, and changing life expectancy. To model the environmental impact of economic activities, we use a modified IPAT model. We show that China’s one child has a very strong posi...

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Literature Corpus work: ece779da-81ce-5815-b5b4-ad40d2a09311
DOI: 10.20944/preprints201803.0176.v1

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