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virus. Over 26 million residents, including 0.8 million children aged 3-6, were confined at home. This study leveraged a … city-wide cohort of preschool children - the Shanghai Children's Health, Education and Lifestyle Evaluation, Preschool … (SCHEDULE-P) - and used a quasi-experimental design to study the impact of lockdown on preschool children's mental health and …
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This paper examines the causal impact of diagnostic efficiency on the COVID-19 pandemic in China. Using an instrumental variable approach, we show that a 1-day decrease in the time taken to confirm the first case in a city publicly led to 9.4% and 12.7% reductions in COVID-19 prevalence and...
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, characterized by distant-residing children and the absence of a spouse, had a significantly higher percentage of smoking, depressive … of family support. Relative to older adults with a spouse and co-resident children, those without a spouse and with all …Cognitive impairment poses considerable challenges among older adults, with the protective role of family support …
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larger for boys, children from rural or poor households, and those with less-educated mothers. Our findings suggest that …
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introduction of pension benefits on the health status, health behaviors, and healthcare utilization of rural Chinese adults age 60 … adults with access to the pension program experienced significant improvements in several important measures of health … behaviors, such as a reduction in drinking and smoking, and improved sleep habits, play an important role. Our findings point to …
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In response to the outbreak of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19), there have been substantial variations in policy response and performance for disease control and prevention within and across nations. It remains unclear to what extent these variations may be explained by bureaucrats'...
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We consider a model of network interactions where the outcome of a unit depends on the outcomes of the connected units. We determine the key network link, i.e., the network link whose removal results in the largest reduction in the aggregate outcomes, and provide a measure that quantifies the...
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Dementia leads public health issue worldwide. China has the largest population of adults living with dementia in the …
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Elections define representative democracies, but also produce spikes in physical mobility if voters need to travel to electoral rooms. In this paper, we examine whether large-scale, in-person elections propagate the spread of COVID-19. We exploit a natural experiment from the Czech Republic...
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The examination of the causal impact of health insurance coverage on healthcare utilisation is a critical endeavour in both academic research and policy formulation. However, this endeavour faces challenges, notably the endogenous selection into coverage and prevalent misreporting of coverage...
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