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I felt a great disturbance in the force

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" It's as if millions of economists searching for a natural experiment suddenly cried out in joy."

From the BBC:

China is to relax its policy of restricting most couples to having only a single child, state media say.

In future, families will be allowed two children if one parent is an only child, the Xinhua news agency said.

The proposal follows this week's meeting of a key decision-making body of the governing Communist Party.

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