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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011279347
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The Effects of Childhood Health on Adult Health and SES in China
Smith, James P.; Shen, Yan; Strauss, John; Zhe, Yang; … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2010
China using a new sample of middle aged and older Chinese respondents. Modeled after the American Health and Retirement …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008727770
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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