This paper estimates the long run impact of famine on survivors in the context of China's Great Famine. To address …

There is a growing body of evidence showing that negative childhood health shocks have long term consequences in terms … of health, human capital formation and labor market outcomes. However, by altering the relative prices of child quality … across siblings, these health shocks can also affect investments in and the outcomes of healthy siblings. This paper uses the …

explore potential mechanisms, including differential earnings, health insurance, and health behaviors, using data from the …

related to education - health, wealth, occupation, and employment - feature in this correlation. We label these four factors …-third for men, and over two-thirds for women - can be attributed to the correlation of education with health, and of health with … DI receipt. We use data from the Health and Retirement Study for the 1992-2012 period to explore the corresponding roles …

significant impact on hemoglobin, anemia, physical health, cognition or mental health. For the sales experiment, we can reject at …

education and its labor market implications in China, a country that produces one in every five college graduates in the world …. College admission in China is governed by a single exam--the national college entrance exam, and the government sets admission …

Dragon year. Using three recently collected micro data sets from China we show that those born in a Dragon year are more …

than sons. Although China's hukou mobility restrictions are not gender-specific in intent, they have larger adverse effects … on girls. Rural residents adjacent to cities that experience shocks to labor demand after China's accession to the WTO …, and have worse mental and physical health later in life …