Using several waves of the China Health and Nutrition Survey (CHNS), this study analyzes the effect of long work hours … on health and lifestyles in a sample of 18- to 65-year-old Chinese workers. Although working long hours does … significantly increase the probabilities of high blood pressure and poorer reported health, the effects are small. Also small are …

Adult height, as a marker of childhood health, has recently become a focus in understanding the relationship between … childhood health and health outcomes at older ages. However, measured height of the older individuals is contaminated by height … shrinkage from aging. Height shrinkage, in turn may be correlated with health conditions and socio-economic status from …

The impact of socio-economic status on health has been widely recognized, but the independent impact of social status … alone on health remains inconclusive. We approach this challenge by exploiting a natural experiment in which subjects … immortal-time bias in favor of academicians and 2) the endogenous relationship between health and social status, we find that …

addresses this question by estimating the effect of childhood exposure to China’s Great Famine on adult health and labor market … adult health, educational attainment and labor supply. The results show that exposure to famine had significant adverse … effects on adult health and work capacity. The magnitude of the effect is negatively correlated with age at the onset of the …

There is increasing interest in neighborhood or area effects on health and individual development. China, due to its … vast regional variations in health infrastructure and geography and relative immobility of older residents, provides a rare … opportunity to study such effects. Utilizing China Health and Retirement Longitudinal Study (CHARLS) baseline survey 2011 …

We are concerned in this paper with measuring health outcomes among the elderly in Zhejiang and Gansu provinces, China …, and examining the relationships between different dimensions of health status and measures of socio-economic status (SES …). We use the China Health and Retirement Longitudinal Study (CHARLS) pilot data to document health conditions among the …

wages. This wage premium has risen with the growing wage differentials associated with the emergence of a labour market and …