caa a22 4500 469075740 CHVBK 20180323132934.0 cr unu---uuuuu 170328e19921101xx s 000 0 eng 10.1007/BF01358042 doi (NATIONALLICENCE)springer-10.1007/BF01358042 Socioeconomic determinants of China's urban fertility [Elektronische Daten] [Chaoze Cheng, Paul Maxim] This paper examines socioeconomic forces other than population policies and family planning programs that have affected the fertility transition in urban China. The authors argue that before and since the intensification of population planning activities, the government influenced fertility directly and indirectly through socialization of the economy, the transformation of the Chinese family, and the provision of education, employment, health, medical, welfare, cultural, and related services in urban areas. The various social institutions and subsystems of society have greatly weakened the motivation for large families. The byproducts of the slow urbanization process in urban China including housing shortages, unemployment, rising living standards, changes in the cost of raising a child, and urban-rural downward mobility have affected the social and economic costs of childbearing, which in turn have affected the postponement of childbearing. Thus, our considerations of urban China's fertility transition must be broadened to include the issues of social development strategy in Chinese urban experience. Human Sciences Press, Inc., 1992 Cheng Chaoze Department of Sociology, University of Western Ontario, N6G 5C2, London, Ontario, Canada aut Maxim Paul Department of Sociology, University of Western Ontario, N6G 5C2, London, Ontario, Canada aut Population and Environment Kluwer Academic Publishers-Human Sciences Press 14/2(1992-11-01), 133-157 0199-0039 14:2<133 1992 14 11111 https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01358042 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01358042 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Cheng Chaoze Department of Sociology, University of Western Ontario, N6G 5C2, London, Ontario, Canada aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Maxim Paul Department of Sociology, University of Western Ontario, N6G 5C2, London, Ontario, Canada aut NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Population and Environment Kluwer Academic Publishers-Human Sciences Press 14/2(1992-11-01), 133-157 0199-0039 14:2<133 1992 14 11111 Metadata rights reserved Springer special CC-BY-NC licence nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-springer