This paper identifies health determinants in urban China applying Grossman model. Using wave of China Health and …, and married couple has better health in urban China. -- self-reported health status ; Grossman model ; ordered probit … Nutrition Survey in 2000, we find that education has important positive effect on health, and cost of health care services has …

Research has established that health status is affected not only by medical factors but also by socioeconomic variables …. In this paper we analyze the links between health status (measured by self-reported illness occurrence in the last 12 … and those with more than 5 years of education, have a smaller probability of reporting a bad health status. Also, we …

This paper exploits variation in health outcomes among middle-age men and women to better understand the "production …, among other things. The results point to the underlying importance of starting stock of good health, its maintenance (for … importantly on the user's health human capital, then models of optimum exposure, and the public health guidelines they spawn, need …

The relationship between human capital development and urbanization in the People's Republic of China (PRC) is explored … terms of health, rural-urban migration is selective in that healthy rural residents choose to migrate. Occupational choices … and living conditions are detrimental to migrants' health, however. While migration has a positive effect on migrant …

design. Analyzing data on 10,787 adults from the China Health and Nutrition Survey, our estimation reveals that hypertension …

data provided by the China Health and Retirement Longitudinal Study (CHARLS) to corroborate evidence supporting the Fetal …We report evidence of long-term adverse health impacts of in utero exposure to malnutrition based on survivors in their … 50s who were born during the China Famine that occurred in the years 1959-1961. We take advantage of recently available …

and individual level longitudinal data from the China Health and Nutrition Survey to estimate the net health impact of …Rapid urbanization could have positive and negative health effects, such that the net impact on population health is … China’s unprecedented urbanization. We construct an index of urbanicity from a broad set of community characteristics and …

education's impact. These suggest that CSLs have improved national health significantly in China and the findings help to …Using a national representative sample in China from three largest on-going surveys, this study examines the effects of … education on health among working-age population and explores the potential mechanisms. Using the exogenous variation in …

The impact of socio-economic status on health has been widely recognized, but the independent impact of social status … alone on health remains inconclusive. We approach this challenge by exploiting a natural experiment in which subjects … China is a boost in social status (vice-ministerial level) with negligible economic impact (US$30 monthly before 2009 …

Using several waves of the China Health and Nutrition Survey (CHNS), this study analyzes the effect of long work hours … on health and lifestyles in a sample of 18- to 65-year-old Chinese workers. Although working long hours does … significantly increase the probabilities of high blood pressure and poorer reported health, the effects are small. Also small are …