This paper identifies health determinants in urban China applying Grossman model. Using wave of China Health and … Nutrition Survey in 2000, we find that education has important positive effect on health, and cost of health care services has … important determinant of health. The body weight is also important, but unlike finding in developed countries, under …

parents left behind in the rural area. The impact of migration of the adult children on the health of their left … health care and nutrition; on the other hand, the migration necessarily reduces the amount of time the children have to take … adult children's migration on the health of the left-behind parents. Based on a linear probability model with instrumental …

This paper estimates the causal effect of income on health outcomes of the elderly and investigates underlying … measures of physical health, cognitive function, and psychological well-being of the rural elderly, and also reduced mortality … pension income in multiple ways: improved nutrition intake, better accessibility to health care, increased informal care …

investigate the impact of the parents' job loss on the health of their children, using six waves of the China Health and Nutrition …'s health, whilst maternal job loss has no significant effect. The rationale behind the findings is that the income loss … are robust to various specifications. -- children's health ; job loss ; Grossman's model ; China …

This paper analyzes urban-rural disparities of China's child health and nutritional status using the China Health and … Nutrition Survey data from 1989 to 2006. We investigate degrees of health and nutritional disparities between urban and rural … period 1989-2006. We also find that the urban-rural health and nutritional disparities have been declining significantly from …