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Early life health interventions and academic achievement

Bharadwaj, Prashant; Løken, Katrine V.; Neilson, … - 2012

This paper studies the effect of improved neonatal health care on mortality and long run academic achievement in school. We use the idea that medical treatments often follow rules of thumb for assigning care to patients, such as the classification of Very Low Birth Weight (VLBW), which assigns...

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Grandfathers and grandsons : social security expansion and child health in China

Yang, Jinyang; Chen, Xi - 2022

We examine the multigenerational impacts of a nationwide social pension program in China, the New Rural Pension Scheme …

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Adverse childhood circumstances and cognitive function in middle-aged and older Chinese adults: lower level or faster decline?

Lin, Zhuoer; Chen, Xi - 2021

This paper reviews the literature on the relationship between gender (in)equality and industrialization in the context of developing countries. It documents past developments, accounting for pre-industrial preconditions that might explain current differences in gender roles across societies....

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Childhood circumstances and health inequality in old age: comparative evidence from China and the United States

Chen, Xi; Yan, Binjian; Gill, Thomas M. - 2020

evaluates the importance of major domains of childhood circumstances to health inequalities in the USA and China. We link two … waves of the China Health and Retirement Longitudinal Study (CHARLS) in 2013 and 2015 with the newly released 2014 Life …-16 percent and 14-30 percent of health inequality in old age in China and the USA, respectively. Specifically, the contribution …

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Does daughter deficit promote parental substance use? : longitudinal evidence on smoking from rural China

Chen, Xi - 2017

China and some other Asian countries have experienced skewed sex ratios, triggering intense competition and pressure in … the marriage market. Meanwhile, China has more smokers than any other country, with half of men smoke while few women … market in China - affects their fathers' smoking behavior. We utilize two household longitudinal surveys as well as a random …

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Early life environments and frailty in old age among Chinese older adults

Li, Yaxi; Xue, Qian-Li; Odden, Michelle C.; Chen, Xi; … - 2019

. 6,806 participants aged ≥60 years from the China Health and Retirement Longitudinal Study were included. We measured 13 …

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The effects of prenatal exposure to temperature extremes on birth outcomes

Chen, Xi; Tan, Chih Ming; Zhang, Xiaobo; Zhang, Xin - 2020

log of birth weight and an indicator for low birth weight - using a nationally representative dataset in rural China …

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Prenatal sunshine exposure and birth outcomes in China

Zhang, Xin; Wang, Yixuan; Chen, Xi; Zhang, Xun - 2019

birth record dataset in China. During the sample period in the 1990s, migration was limited in rural China, allowing us to …

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Costly posturing : ceremonies and early child development in China

Chen, Xi; Zhang, Xiaobo - 2017

household survey in rural China, this paper provides empirical evidence on the squeeze effect of gift giving. …

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Early life circumstances and the health of older adults : a research note

Chen, Xi - 2022

This paper reviews the latest evidence of the effects of early life circumstances on old-age health, distinguishing in utero exposures from childhood exposures to a wide range of environments. We then leverage the growing number of studies of the impact of the Great Chinese Famine (1959-1961) on...

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