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Cross-sectional schooling-health associations misrepresented causal schooling effects on adult health and health-related behaviors: Evidence from the Chinese Adults Twins Survey

Behrman, Jere R.; Xiong, Yanyan; Zhang, Junsen - In: Social Science & Medicine 127 (2015) C, pp. 190-197

Adult health outcomes and health behaviors are often associated with schooling. However, such associations do not necessarily imply that schooling has causal effects on health with the signs or magnitudes found in the cross-sectional associations. Schooling may be proxying for unobserved factors...

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Early health shocks, intra-household resource allocation and child outcomes

Yi, Junjian; Heckman, James J.; Zhang, Junsen; Conti, … - In: The economic journal : the journal of the Royal … 125 (2015) 588, pp. 347-371

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Early health shocks, intrahousehold resource allocation, and child outcomes

Yi, Junjian; Heckman, James J.; Zhang, Junsen; Conti, … - 2014

An open question in the literature is whether families compensate or reinforce the impact of child health shocks. Discussions usually focus on one dimension of child investment. This paper examines multiple dimensions using household survey data on Chinese child twins whose average age is 11. We...

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Do population control policies induce more human capital investment? : Twins, birthweight, and China's "one child" policy

Rosenzweig, Mark Richard; Zhang, Junsen - 2006

In this paper we use a new data set describing households with and without twin children in China to quantify the trade … area of China, an extra child at parity one or at parity two, net of birthweight effects, significantly decreases the … deficit of twins. Despite the evident significant trade-off between number of children and child quality in China, however …