We study the dispersion in rates of provincial economic- and TFP growth in China. Our results show that regional growth … regional gaps in China as well as an efficient means to promote economic growth …

In this paper we provide an overview of China's human capital strategy and educational achievements over the last two … decades. While every one acknowledges China as an economic superpower, very few are aware of or realize China's notable … Chinese modern higher education system China has made tremendous strides in education both domestically and internationally …

Micro-based and macro-based approaches have been used to assess the effects of health on economic growth. Micro …-based approaches aggregate the return on individual health from Mincerian wage regressions to derive the macroeconomic effects of … population health. Macro-based approaches estimate a generalized aggregate production function that decomposes output into its …

This paper examines the determinants of intergenerational correlation of education in rural China by using a data from …

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 … children in China as well as how such disparities have changed during the period 1989–2006. The results show that on average …

investigate the impact of the parents' job loss on the health of their children, using six waves of the China Health and Nutrition …Beginning in the mid 1990s, China sped up its urban labor market reform and drastically restructured its state …'s health, whilst maternal job loss has no significant effect. The rationale behind the findings is that the income loss …

examine the impact of extreme weather on long-term human health in an environment where individuals have no access to modern …