We are concerned in this paper with measuring health outcomes among the elderly in Zhejiang and Gansu provinces, China, and examining the relationships between different dimensions of health status and measures of socio-economic status (SES). We use the China Health and Retirement Longitudinal...

This paper studies relationships between social networks, health and subjective well-being (SWB) using nationally representative data of the Chinese Population - the Chinese Family Panel Studies (CFPS). Our data contain SWB indicators in two widely used variants - happiness and...

In this paper, we model the consequences of childhood health on adult health and socioeconomic status outcomes in China using a new sample of middle aged and older Chinese respondents. Modeled after the American Health and Retirement Survey (HRS), the CHARLS Pilot survey respondents are...

Leveraging Weiner's attribution theory of intrapersonal motivation at the micro level and varieties of capitalism theory at the macro level, we conduct a multi‐country and cross‐level study examining whether individuals' career goals (i.e., perceived importance of learning and development),...

The rapid rise of financial technology (fintech) in the People's Republic of China (PRC) inevitably generates financial risks. To prevent and resolve these risks, the government has regulated many fintech application areas, including peer-to-peer lending, third-party payment, cryptocurrency,...