This journal is one of the earliest journals on population science in China. It is issued worldwide and indexed by CSSCI, and it is listed as the national Chinese core periodicaland the core periodical on population science.
Editor-in-Chief Yu Xiao
Deputy Editor-in-Chief Wang Xiaofeng, Wang Huabo
Editorial Board Wang Guangzhou, Wang Jinying, Yi Hao, Tian Yipeng, Sun Changzhi, Zhu Yu, Zhang Shiwei, Qiu Hong, Lu Jiehua, Chen Yingzi, Li Shuzhuo, Fan Lida, Yang Chenggang, Yang
Based on the health production function proposed by Grossman, this paper introduces the air pollution factor and uses the smoke and dust emissions as the proxy variables. The effect of air pollution on the public health of the residents is analyzed by using the provincial panel data from 2000 to 2015. It is found that the damage caused by the pollution of atmospheric dust due to smoke and dust emissions is very significant to the public health of our residents. When the factors such as economic development, public health and greening are added, the degree of influence will be weakened obviously, and the level of economic development and public service can also help reduce the risk of health damage caused by air pollution to residents’ health. This is also an important reason for the significant difference in the risk of pollution damage between provinces. The results of the model test showed that the inhibitory effect of public health expenditure on the health risk of air pollution showed an inverted U-shaped change and the inflection point value was large. The inhibitory effect of the current level of public health expenditure on the residents’ health damage risk caused by air pollution is not obvious, which is mainly related to the imperfect health and health system and the structural effects of public health services. The inflection point effect of public health expenditure also shows that residents themselves bear more health costs for health damage by air pollution, which undoubtedly creates a greater economic burden on backward areas and poor groups, and is not conducive to the fairness of air pollution control. The policy implication is that the strict control of smoke and dust emissions, and the improvement of public health and environmental protection and green facilities such as public service level, can effectively reduce the exposure probability of residents and pollution health risks.
In order to theoretically analyze the influence of the population quantity dividend and population quality dividend on economic growth. This paper constructs an endogenous economic growth model including population age structure and human capital structure by extending the MRW model. The paper uses data from the provinces of China from 1989 to 2013 to verify the above hypothesis. Results show that population quantity dividend affects population quality dividend by investment rate and investment structure of human capital, which leads to substitution effect of population quality to quantity. Population quantity dividend for the average contribution of China’s economic growth rate was 12.86%, and the largest is from 1900 to 2000. Its contribution rate began to decline significantly after 2010. The average contribution rate of the population quality dividend to China’s economic growth is 8.39%, and its contribution rate shows a rising trend. In the long term, the population quality dividend begins to form a population quantity dividend of the substitution effect. The above conclusions show that in the process of economic development in the future, we should pay attention to the new dynamic mechanism and the characteristics of the factors.
Floating population’s extramarital sexual issues are highly regarded by the government and the community. However, in the field of extramarital sexual behavior tolerance research, the domestic sociological empirical research focusing on the floating population and gender differences is limited. Based on the Chinese General Social Survey, this paper analyzes the influence factors and gender differences on the tolerance of the floating population to the extramarital sexual behavior. The results of the descriptive analysis and the overall sample show that the female floating population are more tolerant of extramarital sexual behavior than the male floating population. Through the comparison of ordered logit models, most of the indicators do not have particularly significant gender differences. Among them, the personal annual income, marital status, original regions, duration of migration, and the degree of labor union participation have a positive effect on the tolerance of the male and female floating population to the extramarital sexual behavior. Age, political status, whether living with the spouse, and the degree of closeness with relatives and friends have an inhibitory effect on the tolerance of the floating population to the extramarital sexual behavior. But the length of education and the number of children have different significant impact on the tolerance of the floating population to the extramarital sexual behavior. Longer education years and more children can make the female floating population have higher tolerance of extramarital sexual behavior, while the influence of the two factors on the male floating population is insignificant. On the one hand, compared with the male floating population, the female floating population have been in a relatively depressed position in the social education and sexual norms since ancient times. Therefore, education has a more obvious influence on the change of sexual attitude of the female floating population. On the other hand, in view of their own involvement and the provision of a harmonious family environment for their children’s growth, the female floating population are more willing to adopt relatively tolerant attitude towards extramarital sexual behavior.
In an extended family, adult children share the responsibility of supporting their elderly parents. Studying how do children share the responsibility of caring for their parents is not only helpful for understanding the decision-making mechanism in extended family, but also has vital implication to policy practice. As the opportunity cost of caring for parents is different among adult children, the optimal allocation of resources means the responsibility of caring for parents should been mainly borne by children with lower opportunity cost. Using the follow-up survey of China Health and Retirement Longitudinal Study in 2013 (CHARLS 2013), and choosing the frequency of meeting with parents as the measuring indicator of caring responsibility, we empirically tested the labor division of caring for parents among adult children. Using a fixed-effect logit model, we found that the lower level of education the children had, the greater the probability of being parents’ primary caregiver, and the greater the probability of meeting parents every day. If we measured the opportunity cost of caring for parents by the income of children and their spouses, we found that the lower the income of the child and his or her spouse had, the greater the probability of being parents’ primary caregiver, and the greater the probability of meeting parents every day. Thus the labor division of caring for parents among children reflects the comparative advantage based on opportunity cost, and the responsibility of taking care of the parents is largely assumed by children with lower opportunity cost. From the perspective of policy, the study means that the government should take into full consideration the labor division of caring for parents among adult children in the formulation of public policies. As public policies may crowd out home-based care for the aged, the government should take into full consideration that the policy may have different indirect effects on the children of the elderly and lead to different welfare distribution among adult children.
From the perspective of outflow, this paper analyzes the changing characteristics of interprovincial population outflow in the central region of China by using data of the fifth and the sixth national censuses, and the 2005 and 2015 national 1% population sampling surveys. The result shows that the outflow scale of the central region has been increasing since 21st century, but when compared with the nation level it has slowed down. Provinces in the central region with large scale of outflow population have a tendency to slow down the growth rate of outflow, while the opposite ones have a tendency to speed on. The outflow distribution is of obvious convergence, as Hunan, Anhui and Jiangxi are the most concentrated, while Shanxi and Henan are the most dispersed. Based on the panel data from 2002 to 2012, this paper builds variable coefficient panel model of the impacts of interprovincial outflow in the central region. The result shows that it has a slight negative impact on the overall economic growth of the central region and it is not good for narrowing the economic gap between the central region and the east region of China. In addition, population outflow has hindered the transformation and upgrading of industrial structure in the central region. Outflow generally reduces the GDP proportion of the tertiary industry, while relatively increases the GDP proportion of the first industry and the second industry. The relatively low economic condition in the central region leads to a large scale of outflow, while outflow causes a further hindrance to the development of the central region. So this paper argues that the local government should attach more importance to the economic development in the central region, thus to relieve the phenomenon of brain drain. As the influence of outflow to each province of the central region is different, policy making needs to adapt to local conditions.
Under the definition and implication of rural population hollowing, four indexes were introduced to conduct a comprehensive measure for the degree of rural population hollowing with the data of 1995 counties in China. The index system included the outflow population proportion, urbanization rate, the proportion of children aged below 14 and the proportion of the elderly aged above 65. By the method of kernel density estimation and ESDA-GIS, the spatial-temporal variation characteristics and the causes were examined. The results were shown as follows. The average rates of rural population hollowing in 2000 and 2010 were 14.22 and 23.45 respectively, showing a sharp upward trend in the time. The high-value regions were mainly found in the eastern part of Hu line and the northern part of Hei-Meng line (Heilongjiang and Inner Mongolia), while the low values were around Hu line, the southern part of Dian-Zang line (Yunnan and Tibet) as well as the west of Sichuan Province. During the years of 2000 and 2010, hollowing situations in 1892 counties were deteriorated while improvement was seen in other 103 counties. The degree of rural population hollowing was intensified from the west to the east, which was the same from the south to the north. However, it was noted that the disparity within the latter was far more serious than that within the former. Moran’s I, which indicates the rural hollowing degree, was 0.6152 and 0.6165 in year 2000 and 2010 respectively, showing that the rural population hollowing was highly global spatial auto-correlated. Spatial agglomeration trend was reinforced and regional disparity was enlarged. High-high-value agglomerations extended from coastal areas to Sichuan-Chongqing area and the border of Aihui-Henan area. The aggregation trend was slowed down in north high-high-value region, but the internal heterogeneity in different agglomerations of rural hollowing degree was strengthened. Therefore, the local government should take the reality into consideration, and introduce several policies in the employment support, credit support, homestead use, social security and education and medical care to break the dilemma of rural population hollowing.
