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Housing unaffordability and adolescent academic achievement in urban China
Nie, Peng; Li, Qiaoge; Ding, Lanlin; Sousa-Poza, Alfonso - 2023
Rising housing prices in China have placed significant financial strain on many households, pushing them into the … the cognitive development of children. Our study, based on longitudinal data from the 2010-2018 China Family Panel Studies …, analyses the effect of housing unaffordability on the academic achievements of Chinese adolescents aged 10-18. To address the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014338695
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Housing unaffordability and adolescent subjective well-being in China
Nie, Peng; Li, Qiaoge; Sousa-Poza, Alfonso - 2022
Using the 2010-2018 waves of the China Family Panel Studies, we investigate the impact of housing unaffordability on … subjective well-being (SWB) among Chinese adolescents aged 10-15. Using a combined methodology of propensity score matching and … depression, with more pronounced impacts among older adolescents (aged 13-15), those from migrant and urban families, and those …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013259775
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Housing Unaffordability and Adolescent Subjective Well-Being in China
Nie, Peng; Li, Qiaoge; Sousa-Poza, Alfonso - 2022
Using the 2010-2018 waves of the China Family Panel Studies, we investigate the impact of housing unaffordability on … subjective well-being (SWB) among Chinese adolescents aged 10-15. Using a combined methodology of propensity score matching and … depression, with more pronounced impacts among older adolescents (aged 13-15), those from migrant and urban families, and those …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013351844
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The impact of family composition on educational achievement
Chen, Stacey H.; Chen, Yen-chien; Liu, Jin-tan - 2014
Parents preferring sons tend to go on to have more children until one or more boys are born, and to concentrate investment in boys for a given sibsize. Therefore, having a brother may affect child outcomes in two ways: indirectly, by decreasing sibsize, and directly, where sibsize remains...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010412292
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Urban Density and Pupil Attainment
Gibbons, Stephen; Silva, Olmo - 2021
We explore the association between urban density and pupil attainment using three cohorts of pupils in schooling in England. Although - as widely recognised - attainment in dense urban places is low on average, this is not because urban environments disadvantage pupils, but because the most...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013317134
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Hukou Changes and Subjective Well-Being
Tani, Massimiliano - 2015
inequality imposed by the hukou system on China's rural population. However, quantifying the cost of holding a rural hukou has … on China, this limitation can be overcome by exploiting exogenous changes in hukou status due to expropriation. The … the household heads. The results complement a growing literature on subjective well-being focusing on China. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011401713
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The Health Consequence of Rising Housing Prices in China
Xu, Yuanwei; Wang, Feicheng - 2020
China has experienced a rapid boom in real estate prices in the last few decades, leading to a substantial increase in … and temporal variation in housing price appreciation linked to individual-level health data in China from 2000 to 2011. We … chronic diseases in China. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012287858
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Hukou changes and subjective well-being
Tani, Massimiliano - 2015
inequality imposed by the hukou system on China's rural population. However, quantifying the cost of holding a rural hukou has … on China, this limitation can be overcome by exploiting exogenous changes in hukou status due to expropriation. The … the household heads. The results complement a growing literature on subjective well-being focusing on China. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011376248
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The health consequence of rising housing prices in China
Xu, Yuanwei; Wang, Feicheng - 2020
China has experienced a rapid boom in real estate prices in the last few decades, leading to a substantial increase in … and temporal variation in housing price appreciation linked to individual-level health data in China from 2000 to 2011. We … chronic diseases in China. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012426762
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Should We Be Concerned about the Distribution of Literacy across Households? An Axiomatic Investigation
Valenti, Paola - Center for Analytic Economics, Department of Economics - 2002
This paper proposes a class of literacymeasures that takes into account the externality generated by the presence of literates in the household. It is claimed that such externality is increasing in the number of literates in the household, has characteristics of rivalry in consumption, and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005237153