This paper tests whether body size affects employment status in the Chinese urban labor market. Based on Urban Resident Basic Medical Insurance (URBMI) survey data, we find that body size has an inverted U-shaped effect on the probability of being employed when human capital and other factors...

This paper analyzes whether hospital competition is associated with improved health care delivery in China, particularly in the dimensions of health care quality and cost. We explore the differences in competition over time and across regions to examine the relationship in an environment wherein...

This paper estimates the intergenerational health transmission in China using the 1991–2009 China Health and Nutrition Survey (CHNS) data. Three decades of persistent economic growth in China has been accompanied by high income inequality, which may in turn be caused by the inequality of...

This paper estimates the intergenerational health transmission in China using the 1991-2009 China Health and Nutrition Survey (CHNS) data. Three decades of persistent economic growth in China has been accompanied by high income inequality, which may in turn be caused by the inequality of...

This paper evaluates the effect of regulatory reform separating the operational control and regulatory oversight of public hospitals in China. Using city-level data and a difference-in-difference (DID) model, this paper estimates the changes in healthcare supply in response to the regulatory...

Using survey data from China, this paper tests the association between individual self-reported happiness and income inequality. The hypothesized relationship between income inequality and individual happiness is an inverted-U shaped association based on the tunnel effect theory proposed by...

The geographic maldistribution of health care resources is one of the most persistent characteristics of health care systems around the world. Based on China’s provincial-level panel data in 1949-2010, this paper empirically investigates whether the geographic distribution of health care...

This paper examines whether participating in the New Rural Cooperative Medical Scheme (NRCMS), a publicly subsidised health insurance programme in rural China, encourages individuals to engage in risky health behaviours. Despite its rapidly increasing coverage rate, relatively little attention...

The large and growing uninsured population poses an alarming threat to the US health care system, and is a major target of the Obama health reform. This paper investigates analytically and empirically the degree to which the absence of health insurance in the US reflects the availability of the...