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The effect of parental educational expectations on adolescent subjective well-being and the moderating role of perceived academic pressure : longitudinal evidence for China
Lu, Haiyang; Nie, Peng; Sousa-Poza, Alfonso - 2019
China Education Panel Survey, we investigate PEE's causal impact on adolescent subjective well-being (SWB) and the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012146896
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009627356
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Maternal employment and childhood obesity in China : evidence from the China health and nutrition survey
Nie, Peng; Sousa-Poza, Alfonso - 2014
Using five waves from the China Health and Nutrition Survey (CHNS), we investigate the association between maternal … employment and obesity in children aged 3-17 in both rural and urban China. Using BMI and waist circumference as measures for …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010257592
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Peer effects on childhood and adolescent obesity in China
Nie, Peng; Sousa-Poza, Alfonso; He, Xiaobo - 2014
Using data from the China Health and Nutrition Survey (CHNS), this study analyzes peer effects on obesity in a sample … of 3- to 18-year-old children and adolescents in China. Even after a rich set of covariates and unobserved individual …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010413785
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Child education-induced migration and its impact on the economic behaviors of migrated households in China
Yan, Weibo; Nie, Peng - 2021
Using the 2011-2013 China Migrants Dynamic Survey, this paper utilizes the quarter of the year in which a child was … find significant education-induced migration among boys, which we attribute to son preference in China. Due to child … inequality in China. We also provide evidence to show that the segregation of the education system through Hukou is a possible …
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