comes from the Physical Examination in China Health and Nutrition Survey. To an extent we confirm the results with respect … based on the ratio of height to weight, linked to health, using a four-year (1991, 1993, 1997 and 2000) panel data set which … range based on self-reported health. We also find that variables such as income can modify the impact of an adverse BMI on …

This paper tests three hypotheses concerning intra-household resource allocation in rural China. First, whether …: lower female outlay equivalent ratios for adult goods; greater sensitivity of household health spending to young boys than …

This paper analyzes China’s and Vietnam’s performance in reducing under-five child mortality in a comparative … the provision of key public services deteriorated. As a result, child mortality reduction in China and Vietnam was only … area was markedly better than China’s. We show that this apparent paradox is due mainly to two reasons. One is related to …

This paper investigates the intrahousehold resource allocation on children’s education and its earnings consequence in … females, downwards biases of OLS estimation are only for data before 2004, as females in the old cohorts actually have upwards …

completely, heterogeneously, and exogenously by using the cross-sectional data of the China Health and Nutrition Survey. The new …The extent to which China's family planning policy has driven its fertility transition over the past decades is … China's family planning policy and accordingly, proposes a new policy measure that integrates the policy variations more …

of China by empirically estimating environmental Kuznets curve (EKC) models using provincial-level panel data from 1985 … parity terms. This relationship does not hold in the case of waste gas from production or solid waste. The estimation results …