Are only-children different? Evidence from a lab-in-the-field experiment of the Chinese one-child policy

• Published in: PloS one Vol. 17; no. 11; p. e0277210
• Main Authors: Carlsson, Fredrik, Lampi, Elina, Martinsson, Peter, Tu, Qin, Yang, Xiaojun
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: San Francisco Public Library of Science 08.11.2022
• Subjects: Analysis; Aversion; Bargaining; Behavior; Biology and Life Sciences; Children; Children & youth; Competitiveness; Cooperation; Demographic aspects; Earth Sciences; Economics and Business; Ekonomi och näringsliv; Experiments; Families & family life; Family planning; Heterogeneity; Human acts; Human behavior; People and Places; Personality; Personality traits; Provinces; Research and Analysis Methods; Risk; Social Sciences; Statistical analysis; Uncertainty; China; Beijing China

In this paper, we present evidence from a lab-in-the-field experiment of the effects of the Chinese one-child policy on adults in China who were born just before and after the introduction of the policy. We measure risk, uncertainty, and time preferences, as well as subjects’ preferences in the soci...