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195029
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Positive child health is an important development indicator and is also a source of long-term economic growth. Whilst there has been previous research on the relationship between trade liberalization and child health, the conclusion is mixed and the underlying mechanisms remain limited. This paper estimates the effect of reductions in export tariffs on child health by taking advantage of exogenous changes in export tariffs on Chinese products since the reform and opening-up in 1978. We apply the Bartik approach and refer to China Health and Nutrition Survey data from 1993 to 2009, and find that export expansion causes a significant deterioration in child health, with the more obvious effects among relatively vulnerable families in rural areas, individuals with a low level of education, and girls. In addition, the mechanism analysis shows that export expansion increases the income and employment level of working-age parents. However, the income effect does not offset the negative impact of export expansion on parental care, the children being left behind, and child labor.
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188160
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With the fast pace of population aging, industrialization, and urbanization in China, the main source of elderly care is changing. Using China Health and Retirement Longitudinal Survey data, we investigate the elderly care provision situation and find that spouses are currently the most important elderly care providers in China. We use a model to depict the trade-off between a caregiver's own health and the care quality obtained by the care recipient. The model predicts that under some conditions, the caregivers will provide care at the cost of their health. Employing a stratified propensity score matching method, we find that spouses' caregivers are more likely to have depression, physical pain, and hypertension than noncaregivers. The negative effects are larger for caregivers with a high level of care intensity or less support from other resources. Female spousal caregivers tend to suffer more from depression and physical pain than male spousal caregivers. Our findings suggest that policies toward “healthy aging” should target not only the disabled elderly but also their spousal caregivers who are also elderly people.
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182756
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Infectious diseases put health of millions at risk and induce large socioeconomic costs each year. However, the long-term effects of exposure to infectious diseases on the elderly have received minimal attention. Using data from the Chinese Longitudinal Healthy Longevity Survey, this study adopts a differences-in-differences strategy to evaluate the long-term effects of epidemic exposure on old-age mortality. We find that intense exposure to the severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) epidemic led to an increase in old-age mortality after the SARS outbreak. We provide some suggestive evidence that exposure to SARS increased psychological stress and limitations in physical activities among old people.
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