This study examines the extent to which the Spanish language influences the way in which respondents report health using the ubiquitous self-assessed health(SAH)outcome.We account for citizenship status,ethnicity,and ...
Based on the methods of the average period age ratio and the average cohort age ratio,this study systematically assesses age heaping or digit preference in all population censuses of China.Our study finds that the ove...
Many women in developing countries are dying from preventable causes related to pregnancy and childbirth.These maternal deaths are attributed to the poor coverage of reproductive health services and high fertility lev...
Youth internal migration is seen as a solution to youth unemployment,and this has resulted in over urbanization and its associated negative effects such as congestion,pollution,unemployment,underemployment,and increas...
Child trafficking has long been internationally recognized as a serious crime.However,due to data scarcity and inconsistent definitions,the scope and the nature of such criminal activity are not well understood in Chi...
Data characterizing older people’s life expectancy by good or poor health is important for policy and fiscal planning.This study aims to examine trends and investigate gender differences in healthy life expectancy(HL...
This study estimates changes in life expectancy with and without mobility limitation to test whether older persons in India experienced compression or expansion of morbidity from the period 1995–1996 to 2004.Age-spec...
Adolescent obesity can be defined using various age-and sex-specific growth charts.In addition to general obesity,central adiposity is also crucially important.This paper aims to study the efficacy of central adiposit...
Depression brings a great burden of disease to Brazil. This study investigates depression-free life expectancy (DFLE) between 1998 and 2013 in the country. We used data from Brazilian National Household Survey, Nation...
National Natural Science Foundation of China (No. 71603214);National Social Science Foundation of China (No. 18VSJ070);Foundation of Ministry of Education of China (No. 15YJA790096);is also supported by the Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities (No. JBK160502).
Exploiting China’s mandatory retirement policy, we used fuzzy regression discontinuity design to estimate the effect of retirement on household alcohol expenditure among urban Chinese older adults ages 50–70. Drawin...