大家看看，很有意思！Little Emperors: Behavioral Impacts of China's One-Child Policy

• L. Cameron[size=0.85em][size=1em]1,[size=0.85em]*,
• N. Erkal[size=0.85em][size=1em]2,
• L. Gangadharan[size=0.85em][size=1em]3,
• X. Meng[size=0.85em][size=1em]4
  

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Author Affiliations

• 1Department of Econometrics, Monash University, Clayton, Victoria 3800, Australia.
• 2Department of Economics, University of Melbourne, Victoria 3010, Australia.
• 3Department of Economics, Monash University, Clayton, Victoria 3800, Australia.
• 4Research School of Economics, College of Business and Economics, Australian National University, Australian Capital Territory 0200 Australia.
  

• ↵[size=0.85em]*To whom correspondence should be addressed. E-mail: lisa.cameron@monash.edu
  

• [color=rgb(51, 51, 51) !important]ABSTRACT
  

We document that China's One-Child Policy (OCP), one of the most radical approaches to limiting population growth, has produced significantly less trusting, less trustworthy, more risk-averse, less competitive, more pessimistic, and less conscientious individuals. Our data were collected from economics experiments conducted with 421 individuals born just before and just after the OCP's introduction in 1979. Surveys to elicit personality traits were also used. We used the exogenous imposition of the OCP to identify the causal impact of being an only child, net of family background effects. The OCP thus has significant ramifications for Chinese society.