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In this paper we analyze the effect of removing village-level primary schools and effectively merging these into larger township-level schools on educational attainment in rural areas of the People's Republic of China (PRC). We employ individual- and village-level information from the China...
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. However, the health impact of these programs is less understood. Using a quasi-experiment of the first universal child care … program in China from 2010, this paper aims to identify whether preschool attendance produces any short-term effects on health …-urban disparities in education access and undernutrition prevention. I also explore the impact on caregivers' health consciousness and …
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Youth smoking can biologically reduce learning productivity. It can also reduce youths’ expected returns to education and lower their motivation to go to school, where smoking is forbidden. Using rich household survey data from rural China, this study investigates the effect of youth smoking...
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Rapid urbanization could have positive and negative health effects, such that the net impact on population health is … and individual level longitudinal data from the China Health and Nutrition Survey to estimate the net health impact of … to identify the treatment effect of urbanization on the self-assessed health of individuals. The results reveal important …
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Rapid urbanization could have positive and negative health effects, such that the net impact on population health is … and individual level longitudinal data from the China Health and Nutrition Survey to estimate the net health impact of … to identify the treatment effect of urbanization on the self-assessed health of individuals. The results reveal important …
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and health in China. It is the most comprehensive analysis of this subject to date, both in the sizes of the samples it … social trust, social relationships, and social networks as important determinants of self-reported health. The magnitude of … improving health outcomes in China. …
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and self-reported health in China. It is the most comprehensive analysis of this subject to date, both in the sizes of the … authors identify social trust, social relationships, and social networks as important determinants of self-reported health … policy tool for improving health outcomes in China. …
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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 …
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's ageing population as a ticking time bomb which paradoxically is both a challenge and an opportunity for the country. Health … is considered an important determinant of economic growth and competitiveness. The health of the elderly population …
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This paper is one of the first to examine the associations between prenatal sunshine exposure and birth outcomes, specifically the incidence of low birth weight (LBW) and small for gestational age (SGA), based on a nationally representative birth record dataset in China. During the sample period...
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