Essays about: "Mengya Wang"

Found 1 essay containing the words Mengya Wang.

  1. 1. The effects of parental unemployment on children's health in China

    University essay from Uppsala universitet/Nationalekonomiska institutionen

    Author : Mengya Wang; [2022]
    Keywords : Parental unemployment; Child health; Nutritional intake; the State-owned enterprise reform;

    Abstract : This thesis uses data from the China Health and Nutrition Survey (CHNS) from 1991 to 2004 to estimate the short-term effects of parental unemployment on children's health through exogenous shocks from state-owned enterprise reforms at the end of the last century by employing fixed effects and instrumental variables methods. Findings show that parental unemployment decreases children's weight z-scores and reduces the frequency with which children have been ill or hurt in the past month. READ MORE