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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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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

Long work hours and health in China

Nie, Peng; Otterbach, Steffen; Sousa-Poza, Alfonso - 2015

Using several waves of the China Health and Nutrition Survey (CHNS), this study analyzes the effect of long work hours …

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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 …

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Energy poverty and subjective well-being in China : new evidence from the China family panel studies

Nie, Peng; Li, Qiaoge; Sousa-Poza, Alfonso - 2021

Using the 2012-2018 waves of the China Family Panel Studies, we investigate the impact of energy poverty (EP) on …

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"The better you feel, the harder you fall": health perception biases and mental health among Chinese adults during the COVID-19 pandemic

Nie, Peng; Wang, Lu; Dragone, Davide; Lu, Haiyang; … - 2021

The health risks of the current COVID-19 pandemic, together with the drastic mitigation measures taken in many affected nations, pose an obvious threat to public mental health. The social science literature has already established a clear link between mental health and sociodemographic as well...

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Effects of social networks on job attainment and match quality: evidence from the China Labor-force Dynamics Survey

Nie, Peng; Yan, Weibo - 2021

Using nationally representative data from the 2012 and 2014 China Labor-force Dynamics Survey, this paper investigates … match quality in China. We find a wage premium obtained through both kinship and non-kinship networks but shorter job …

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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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Housing unaffordability and adolescent subjective well-being in China

Nie, Peng; Li, Qiaoge; Sousa-Poza, Alfonso - 2022

Using the 2010-2018 waves of the China Family Panel Studies, we investigate the impact of housing unaffordability on …

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Housing conditions and health in urban China

Ding, Lanlin; Nie, Peng; Sousa-Poza, Alfonso - 2022

Using longitudinal data from the China Health and Nutrition Survey, we investigate the causal relation between housing …

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