Health Consequences of Entrepreneurship in China: Evidence from Individual Fixed Effects Estimates

Skylar Biyang Sun, Jing Ning, Ke Yuan, Xiaohang Zhao and Hongling Gong

SAGE Open, 2024, vol. 14, issue 4, 21582440241304665

Abstract: A plethora of research has focused on the economic outcomes of Chinese entrepreneurs, but few have analyzed their life outcomes, especially health consequences. Our research aims to understand entrepreneurial health by exploring the causality between entrepreneurship and health outcomes in the Chinese context. We extracted five waves of data from a nationally representative dataset, that is, the China Family Panel Survey (2010, 2012, 2014, 2016, and 2018), to explore the causal relation. To solve the potential health selection in entrepreneurship, we applied a linear fixed-effects model to extract the causal relationship. In addition, with a nested design, we explored the mechanisms in the causal process. For self-rated health, self-employed people (β = .0696, p  

Keywords: entrepreneurship; China; health; fixed effects model; mechanism (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2024
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DOI: 10.1177/21582440241304665

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