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The Great Chinese Famine of 1959-1961 is puzzling, since despite the high death rates, there is no discernable diminution in height amongst the majority of cohorts who were exposed to the famine in crucial growth years. An explanation is that shorter children experienced greater mortality and...
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Beginning in the mid 1990s, China sped up its urban labor market reform and drastically restructured its state … investigate the impact of the parents' job loss on the health of their children, using six waves of the China Health and Nutrition …
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This paper analyzes urban–rural disparities of China's child health and nutritional status using the China Health and … children in China as well as how such disparities have changed during the period 1989–2006. The results show that on average …
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This paper explores the changing trend of adult height in China for cohorts born in 1950-90. We use information on the …
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Beginning in the mid 1990s, China sped up its urban labor market reform and drastically restructured its state … investigate the impact of the parents' job loss on the health of their children, using six waves of the China Health and Nutrition … are robust to various specifications. -- children's health ; job loss ; Grossman's model ; China …
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This paper analyzes urban-rural disparities of China's child health and nutritional status using the China Health and … children in China as well as how such disparities have changed during the period 1989-2006. The results show that on average … also reduced during this period. -- child ; health and nutritional status ; urban-rural disparities ; China …
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This paper identifies health determinants in urban China applying Grossman model. Using wave of China Health and …, and married couple has better health in urban China. -- self-reported health status ; Grossman model ; ordered probit … ; China …
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addresses this question by estimating the effect of childhood exposure to China's Great Famine on adult health and labor market …
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mechanisms by exploiting an income change induced by the launch of China's New Rural Pension scheme (NRPS). Using this policy …
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