Beyond average health: Urban-rural disparities in the distribution of self-perceived health [0.03%]
平均健康水平之外：主观健康感知分布的城乡差异分析
Lucia Leporatti,Rosella Levaggi,Nicola Pontarollo
Lucia Leporatti
Urban and rural areas differ along multiple dimensions. Urban contexts typically offer better access to services and facilities, while in rural areas access to even essential services may be more limited. At the same time, rural environment...
Does education improve health literacy? Evidence from China's compulsory education law [0.03%]
义务教育对健康素养的影响几何？基于中国的经验研究
Jiachen Lyu,Xuezheng Qin,Rui Sun
Jiachen Lyu
This study examines the causal impact of education on health literacy using a newly collected dataset from China that merges the 2020 China Family Panel Studies (CFPS) with our self-designed Chinese Health Literacy Survey (CHLS). To address...
Explaining birth order effects on child nutrition: Evidence from Kyrgyzstan [0.03%]
论及出生顺序对儿童营养影响的证据——来自吉尔吉斯斯坦的证据
Dinara Issabekova,Dana Bazarkulova
Dinara Issabekova
This paper examines the effects of birth order on child nutrition in Kyrgyzstan, a lower-middle-income country in Central Asia characterized by a Soviet legacy of universal healthcare, relatively high fertility, widespread multigenerational...
Baoliu Liu,Mingyu Shu,Fengming Liu et al.
Baoliu Liu et al.
Famine is a significant and far-reaching challenge for developing countries. This study focuses on the impact of the Great Famine in China around 1960 (1959-1961) on citizens' long-term drinking behavior, health, and socio-economic conseque...
Universal health insurance and health behavior: Evidence from the elderly in Taiwan [0.03%]
全民健康保险与健康行为：来自台湾老年人的证据
Yichen Shen
Yichen Shen
This study investigates the effect of universal health insurance on the health behavior of the elderly in Taiwan. Using a difference-in-differences approach, I show that universal health insurance does not lead to ex-ante moral hazard for e...
Miaoqing Jia,Ching-To Albert Ma
Miaoqing Jia
Antibiotics lose power to kill microbes through excessive use, commonly known as antibiotic resistance, which is modeled by future cost increase from current use. The first best incorporates future cost externality due to current consumptio...
Economic roots of cognitive decline: Tracing early-life shocks to late-life health [0.03%]
经济因素与认知衰退：追溯早期生活冲击对晚年健康的影响
Joan E Madia,Francesco Moscone,Catia Nicodemo et al.
Joan E Madia et al.
This study investigates the long-term associations between early-life economic shocks and cognitive decline in later years, emphasizing the mediating roles of education, unemployment, and health-related factors. Using data from the Survey o...
Heterogeneous returns to antenatal care: Evidence from childhood immunization in Senegal [0.03%]
异质性孕产期护理的收益：来自塞内加尔儿童免疫化的证据
Tadandjoa Kolani
Tadandjoa Kolani
Antenatal care (ANC) serves both as a medical input and as a source of health information in the child health production function. We use seven waves of the Senegal Demographic and Health Surveys, matched to regional health-facility data, t...
Sick and cold? Evidence on the dynamic interplay between energy poverty and self-perceived health [0.03%]
生病还是挨冻？关于能源贫困与自我感知健康之间动态关系的证据
Santiago Budrìa,Paolo Li Donni,Eugenio Zucchelli
Santiago Budrìa
Although a close association between energy poverty and ill-health has been widely documented, robust evidence on the dynamic and bidirectional nature of this relationship remains limited. We employ a dynamic latent class model on rich long...
Limiting antidepressant prescriptions and suicide risk: Evidence from South Korea [0.03%]
限制抗抑郁药处方与自杀风险：来自韩国的证据
Haewon Oh,Travis A Smith
Haewon Oh
South Korea has the highest suicide rate in the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD). In 2002, the Ministry of Health and Welfare of South Korea implemented a policy limiting antidepressant prescriptions to 60 days ...