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China using a new sample of middle aged and older Chinese respondents. Modeled after the American Health and Retirement …
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offspring of mothers who experienced the China Great Leap Forward Famine. The direct impact on entrance to senior high school is …
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longitudinal data from the China Health and Nutrition Survey, we have found a positive, age-enhancing income gradient of child …
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We are concerned in this paper with measuring health outcomes among the elderly in Zhejiang and Gansu provinces, China …). We use the China Health and Retirement Longitudinal Study (CHARLS) pilot data to document health conditions among the … China, particularly so for the aged. In general education tends to be positively correlated with better health outcomes, as …
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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 …
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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 …
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Adult height, as a marker of childhood health, has recently become a focus in understanding the relationship between childhood health and health outcomes at older ages. However, measured height of the older individuals is contaminated by height shrinkage from aging. Height shrinkage, in turn may...
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mechanisms by exploiting an income change induced by the launch of China's New Rural Pension scheme (NRPS). Using this policy …
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during the Great Leap Forward famine in China, and by examining the intergenerational consequences of the famine on those who …
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birth record dataset in China. During the sample period in the 1990s, migration was limited in rural China, allowing us to …
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