This paper examines the extent to which childhood circumstances contribute to health inequality in old age and how the … and 2015 with its Life History Survey in 2014 to quantify health inequality due to childhood circumstances for which they … Shapley value decomposition approach, we first show that childhood circumstances may explain 1-23 percent of health inequality …

We present a comprehensive analysis of ex ante inequality of opportunity (IOp) in health among Chinese adults aged 60 … for between 3.75% and 29.57% of total health inequality in old age across the range of biomarkers. Shapley … China Health and Retirement Longitudinal Study (CHARLS) linked with the 2014 CHARLS Life History Survey. We use a range of …

Using the 2011 and 2015 waves of the China Health and Retirement Longitudinal Study (CHARLS) linked with the 2014 … CHARLS Life History Survey, we provide a comprehensive analysis on inequality of opportunity (IOp) in both body mass index … province of residence are dominant. Health status and nutrition conditions in childhood are the second largest contributor …

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 …

Using data from the 2009 China Health and Nutrition Survey, this study investigates China's income-health gradient by … income-health gradient irrespective of whether the income measure is current or long term. Because risky behavior may … attenuate income's positive effects on health, we also analyze the association between income and such health …

,806 participants aged ≥60 years from the China Health and Retirement Longitudinal Study were included. We measured 13 risk factors in … status, domestic violence, neighborhood, and health). We used multinomial regression models to examine the association …. Results show that worse health condition in childhood and unfavorable childhood and adolescent socioeconomic status as …

its negative health impacts in impoverished rural China using individual fixed effect models. Both the linear regression … poor, and bear grave consequences of malnutrition and worse health status as a result of unhygienic and frequent donations …. Donating plasma is associated with a .83 standard deviation (SD) decline in self-rated health, a .54 SD lower self-rated health …

This paper estimates the extent to which childhood circumstances contribute to health inequality in old age and … Life History Mail Survey (LHMS) in the USA, to quantify health inequality due to childhood circumstances for which they …-16 percent and 14-30 percent of health inequality in old age in China and the USA, respectively. Specifically, the contribution …

Using longitudinal data from the China Health and Nutrition Survey, we investigate the causal relation between housing … conditions (both internal and external) and health among urban adults aged 18+. We find that housing improvement reduces the … probability of bad self-reported health by 3.7 percent, with more pronounced impacts among females, older adults, those with lower …