In 1979, the Chinese government introduced the One-child Policy for the purpose of controlling population growth. Thirty years later, the fertility rate in China has declined to a very low level and one-child families have become the norm. At the same time, the consequences of low fertility rates have emerged. In 2015, the government announced a new policy that encouraged couples to have two ch...

This paper examines the proposition that there are considerable tensions between key strategies in health policy--namely, evidence-based approaches to population health improvement, reduction of health inequalities, and public and patient engagement--using (1) a critical analysis of the intersection of evidence-based public health, patient and public engagement, and health inequalities policies...

This paper analyzes saving and capital accumulation in a two-good growth model of two market economies in which economic agents optimize with perfect foresight. The goal is to present a model in which short-run dynamics and the steady state are soundly integrated. We stress the importance of asset markets as the linkage that transmits disturbances both internationally and intertemporally. While...