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 …

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 …

non-cognitive skill that affects children's future development. We use data from the China Family Panel Studies, which is …

Under China's household registration (hukou) system, children with rural hukou do not have equal rights to access … China's 2010 population census data, we employ a difference-in-differences strategy to examine the impact of hukou status on …

This paper estimates the impact of the Free Education Policy, a major education reform implemented in rural China in … times across different provinces. By utilizing nationally representative data from the China Family Panel Studies, we find … and child cognitive scores by an approximately 1% standard deviation in rural China, indicating a reduction of 3.5% in …