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This paper analyzes urban–rural disparities of China's child health and nutritional status using the China Health and … Nutrition Survey data from 1989 to 2006. We investigate degrees of health and nutritional disparities between urban and rural … period 1989-2006. We also find that the urban–rural health and nutritional disparities have been declining significantly from …
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Many economic decisions are made jointly within households. This raises the question about spouses' relative influence on joint decisions and the determinants of relative influence. Using a controlled experiment (on inter-temporal choice), we let each spouse first make individual decisions and...
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We study household decision making in a high-stakes experiment with a random sample of households in rural China. Spouses have to choose between risky lotteries, first separately and then jointly. We find that spouses' individual risk preferences are more similar the richer the household and the...
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investigate the impact of the parents' job loss on the health of their children, using six waves of the China Health and Nutrition …'s health, whilst maternal job loss has no significant effect. The rationale behind the findings is that the income loss …
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This paper estimates the causal effect of income on health outcomes of the elderly and investigates underlying … measures of physical health, cognitive function, and psychological well-being of the rural elderly, and also reduced mortality … pension income in multiple ways: improved nutrition intake, better accessibility to health care, increased informal care …
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This paper identifies health determinants in urban China applying the Grossman model. Using a wave of China Health and … Nutrition Survey in 2000, we find that education has an important positive effect on health, and cost of health care services … that region is an important determinant of health. The body weight is also important, but unlike the finding in developed …
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