Migration, population aging, and income inequality in China

Zhan, Peng; Ma, Xinxin; Li, Shi

doi:10.1016/j.asieco.2021.101351

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“…The reason for their unwillingness is mostly that the amount of straw is too small and they are too old to be able to recycle straw. This has a lot to do with the current aging phenomenon in rural China (Zhan et al, 2021). Most of the young and middle-aged people in rural areas go out to work (Zou et al, 2018).…”

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From Passive to Active: The Paradigm Shift of Straw Collection

Wang

Yang

2022

Front. Ecol. Evol.

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This paper takes the centralized biogas production project in the energy utilization of straw as a hypothetical item in investigation to discuss the straw collection mode based on the wishes of farmers. Through surveys of farmers in Shandong and Hebei provinces, under the current straw collection price, we found that 85% of farmers have the willingness to actively collect and transport straw, and the longest distance for active transportation is 3.22 km. The willingness of farmers to actively transport is not only affected by personal characteristics, family characteristics, and current energy consumption habits, but also the characteristics of behavioral intervention variables such as knowledge, attitude, and practice of environmental protection also significantly affect the distance of farmers’ active transportation. The behavioral intervention variables of these non-economic factors can be interfered and improved through multiple conventional propaganda tools. Therefore, it is necessary to establish a collection and storage point construction model based on the willingness of farmers to realize the transformation of the straw collection model from passive to active. This method also has an important reference value for most straw energy utilization projects. It will have an important impact on the planning, design, and operation of the project.

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Section: Discussionmentioning

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From Passive to Active: The Paradigm Shift of Straw Collection

Wang

Yang

2022

Front. Ecol. Evol.

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“…Despite violations of the policy, a prior study found that the one-child policy played a crucial role in controlling the population of China, preventing the addition of approximately 200 million people ( 33 ). However, in today's Chinese context, the demographic dividends are disappearing, and the fertility rate is gradually declining owing to the previously implemented strict one-child policy ( 34 , 35 ). The progressive relaxation of the birth policy has been a major trend to cope with these practical issues.…”

Section: Chinese Contextmentioning

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Motherhood Health Penalty: Impact of Fertility on Physical and Mental Health of Chinese Women of Childbearing Age

Yao

Yang

2022

Front. Public Health

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BackgroundThe negative consequences of childbearing on mothers are called the motherhood penalty, and it manifests in the aspects of women's physical and mental health. In May 2021, China relaxed its birth policy that allowed a married couple to have three children. It gives women the opportunity to have more children, but also may increase more risks to mothers' physical and mental health.ObjectivesThe objectives of this study were to clarify the relationships between the fertility and the physical/mental health of women of childbearing age and empirically confirm the existence of the motherhood health penalty in China.Materials and MethodsUsing a nationally representative dataset from the China Labor-force Dynamics Survey 2018, we examined the effects of fertility on the physical and mental health of Chinese women of childbearing age. Physical health was self-rated, and mental health was assessed according to the Center for Epidemiological Studies Depression scale. The instrumental variable approach and the models of inverse probability of treatment weighting of propensity scores and regression adjustment were employed to overcome the endogeneity between fertility and health of women.ResultsThe empirical results showed that the total number of births had significant adverse impacts on the physical and mental health of women of childbearing age, which empirically demonstrated the existence of the motherhood health penalty in China. The results of heterogeneity analysis indicated that the physical and mental health of the rural women was more easily affected by childbearing compared with that of the urban samples. In a mechanism analysis, the pathways of income and the multiple roles played by mothers were found to mediate the impacts of the total number of births on the physical and mental health of women. The robustness checks showed that the results of this study were robust.ConclusionsThe findings of this study extend the motherhood penalty to the health domain, and they have important implications for improving healthcare policy for women of childbearing age in China and other countries and regions and promoting gender equality in the healthcare field.

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“…In China, migration from the rural areas to urban cities contributed to income inequality in rural areas. Migration to urban areas increased income inequality among the older population in rural areas (Zhan et al, 2021). As the younger population migrate to the cities, the older population left behind with lower productivity contributes to income inequality in the rural areas.…”

Section: Ageing Population and The Economymentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Ageing Population and The Economymentioning

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A time-varying impact of ageing population on the economy of Malaysia

Ong

Mohd-Audi-Tye

2022

IJSE

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Purpose By 2040, 14.5% of Malaysia’s population will consist of those aged 65 years and above. The purpose of this paper is to examine the time-varying impact of an ageing population on the economy of Malaysia.Design/methodology/approach The relationship between the ageing population and economic performance was examined from the period 1971–2019. The time-varying rolling convergence estimation of 40 + k observations sample frame of the trace statistics was analysed.Findings The ageing population had affected the economic activities in Malaysia over all sampling time frame from 1971 to 2010, 1972–2011, …to 1980–2019. The growth in total population and economic activities also caused a significant increase in the ageing population in the long run. An improved economic performance signifies the affordability for better healthcare services and improvement in medical science technology to treat diseases.Originality/value Its ageing population has gradually slow down economic activities in Malaysia. Now is the time to be prepared and address an ageing workforce issues such as productivity, retirement policy, savings behaviour and life-long learning capabilities.Peer review The peer review history for this article is available at https://publons.com/publon/10.1108/IJSE-04-2021-0234.

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Migration, population aging, and income inequality in China

Cited by 30 publications

References 21 publications

From Passive to Active: The Paradigm Shift of Straw Collection

From Passive to Active: The Paradigm Shift of Straw Collection

Motherhood Health Penalty: Impact of Fertility on Physical and Mental Health of Chinese Women of Childbearing Age

A time-varying impact of ageing population on the economy of Malaysia

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