Urban-Rural Disparities of Child Health and Nutritional Status in China from 1989 to 2006

Hong Liu, Hai Fang () and Zhong Zhao
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Hai Fang: University of Colorado Denver

No 6528, IZA Discussion Papers from Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)

Abstract: This paper analyzes urban–rural disparities of China's child health and nutritional status using the China Health and Nutrition Survey data from 1989 to 2006. We investigate degrees of health and nutritional disparities between urban and rural children in China as well as how such disparities have changed during the period 1989–2006. The results show that on average urban children have 0.29 higher height-for-age z-scores and 0.19 greater weight-for-age z-scores than rural children. Urban children are approximately 40% less likely to be stunted (OR = 0.62; P

Keywords: health and nutritional status; urban-rural disparities; child; China (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: I14 I15 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 39 pages
Date: 2012-04
New Economics Papers: this item is included in nep-cna, nep-dem, nep-dev, nep-hea, nep-tra and nep-ure
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Published - published in: Economics and Human Biology , 2013, 11 (3), 294–309

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