In response to the dramatic rise in childhood obesity, the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) and other organizations … have advocated increasing the time that elementary school children spend in physical education (PE) classes. However … particular, boys), while the instrument is insufficiently powerful to reliably estimate effects for younger children. This …

local children. Reduced-form estimates offer evidence of adverse impacts almost 1.5 years after the shock: a worsening of … children’s anthropometrics of 0.3 standard deviations, an increase of 15 to 20 percentage points in the incidence of infectious … diseases and an increase of roughly 7 percentage points in mortality for children under five. I also exploit intra- and inter …

poor mental health. We also find that left-handed children have significantly lower cognitive development test scores than …Using data from the US National Longitudinal Survey of Youth, and fitting family fixed-effects models of child health … and cognitive development, we test if left-handed children do significantly worse than their right-handed counterparts …

This paper examines the determinants of the health of children ages 6 to 19, as reported in the Child Development … health and the three measures of religion/religiosity. Those children (self-report or primary caregiver report) who have … overall health and psychological health of the child. Three measures of religion/religiosity of the child are employed …

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 … China is a boost in social status (vice-ministerial level) with negligible economic impact (US$30 monthly before 2009 …

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 …

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

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 …