Van de Poel, Ellen; O'Donnell, Owen; Van Doorslaer, Eddy - In: Economics & Human Biology 7 (2009) 2, pp. 200-216
We quantify, track and explain the distribution of overweight and of hypertension across Chinese provinces differentiated by their degree of urbanicity over the period 1991-2004. We construct an index of urbanicity from longitudinal data on community characteristics from the China Health and...