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 …

Using longitudinal data from the China Health and Nutrition Survey, we investigate the causal relation between housing … conditions (both internal and external) and health among urban adults aged 18+. We find that housing improvement reduces the … probability of bad self-reported health by 3.7 percent, with more pronounced impacts among females, older adults, those with lower …

Using data from the China Health and Nutrition Survey (CHNS), this study analyzes peer effects on obesity in a sample …

health care expenditures among Chinese adults aged 18+. Employing a methodology combining a random effects two-part model and … (230 yuan) and other (113 yuan) health care expenditures, with more pronounced impacts among females and those living in … urban areas and Central and Western China. These results are robust not only to alternative EP and health care expenditure …

underlying mechanisms confirms that individual self-reported health, housing quality, and household food expenditure mediate the …

Using data from the 2009 China Health and Nutrition Survey, this study investigates China's income-health gradient by … income-health gradient irrespective of whether the income measure is current or long term. Because risky behavior may … attenuate income's positive effects on health, we also analyze the association between income and such health …

We present a comprehensive analysis of ex ante inequality of opportunity (IOp) in health among Chinese adults aged 60 … China Health and Retirement Longitudinal Study (CHARLS) linked with the 2014 CHARLS Life History Survey. We use a range of … for between 3.75% and 29.57% of total health inequality in old age across the range of biomarkers. Shapley …

The health risks of the current COVID-19 pandemic, together with the drastic mitigation measures taken in many affected … nations, pose an obvious threat to public mental health. The social science literature has already established a clear link … between mental health and sociodemographic as well as economic factors, and a growing number of studies investigate the role …

Using five waves from the China Health and Nutrition Survey (CHNS), we investigate the association between maternal …