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Health, Height, Height Shrinkage and SES at Older Ages: Evidence from China
Huang, Wei; Lei, Xiaoyan; Ridder, Geert; Strauss, John; … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012
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...
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Gender Differences in Cognition in China and Reasons for Change over Time: Evidence from CHARLS
Lei, Xiaoyan; Smith, James P.; Sun, Xiaoting; Zhao, Yaohui - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013
In this paper, we model gender differences in cognitive ability in China using a new sample of middle-aged and older …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010744662
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Health Outcomes and Socio-Economic Status among the Elderly in China: Evidence from the CHARLS Pilot
Strauss, John; Lei, Xiaoyan; Park, Albert; Shen, Yan; … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2010
We are concerned in this paper with measuring health outcomes among the elderly in Zhejiang and Gansu provinces, China …). We use the China Health and Retirement Longitudinal Study (CHARLS) pilot data to document health conditions among the … China, particularly so for the aged. In general education tends to be positively correlated with better health outcomes, as …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008611319
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One-Child Policy and the Rise of Man-Made Twins
Huang, Wei; Lei, Xiaoyan; Zhao, Yaohui - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014
twin births in China. The analysis using population census data shows that the One-Child Policy accounts for more than one …
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