In 2007, China launched a subsidized voluntary public health insurance program, the Urban Resident Basic Medical …. We estimate the impact of this program on health care utilization and expenditure using 2006 and 2009 waves of the China …-income families, and for the residents in the relatively poor western region. -- urban China ; health insurance ; health care …

Beginning in the mid 1990s, China sped up its urban labor market reform and drastically restructured its state … investigate the impact of the parents' job loss on the health of their children, using six waves of the China Health and Nutrition … are robust to various specifications. -- children's health ; job loss ; Grossman's model ; China …

unique opportunity due to the recent establishment and expansion of the social pension system in rural China, we explicitly … highlight that living arrangement is multidimensional in rural China. …

less on developing countries and very little on China involving migrant workers in spite of their growing practical and … search procedures used by migrant workers in China by taking advantage of a rich data set on migrant workers that has … in China. However, our IV results suggest that the OLS estimates are subject to severe selection bias from the fact that …

Scheme in rural China by estimating a static game with incomplete information. Using a rich dataset from the China Health and …, wealthier, relatively well-educated older male household heads with Han nationality tend to be opinion leaders. -- rural China …

Since China promulgated new minimum wage regulations in 2004, the magnitude and frequency of changes in the minimum … changes in China over the period of 2004 to 2009. In contrast to the mixed results of previous studies using provincial … Central regions of China, and result in disemployment for females, young adults, and low-skilled workers. …

This paper analyzes urban-rural disparities of China's child health and nutritional status using the China Health and … children in China as well as how such disparities have changed during the period 1989-2006. The results show that on average … also reduced during this period. -- child ; health and nutritional status ; urban-rural disparities ; China …

mechanisms by exploiting an income change induced by the launch of China's New Rural Pension scheme (NRPS). Using this policy …

agents care about household production or the income from a second job. Using the China Health and Nutrition Survey, we adopt …