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This research documents and interprets a new demographic phenomenon in which several Chinese societies have begun to use their ancient lunar zodiac calendar as a guide in timing births. Birth data indicate that the phenomenon began with a baby boom in the Year of the Dragon in 1…

The revolutionary political upheavals, the structural socioeconomic changes after the 1979 revolution, and the first post-revolutionary family planning and health program are argued to be the major factors that led to swings in fertility levels over the last decades in Iran. How…