Effect of Economic Reforms on Child Growth in Urban and Rural Areas of China

Shen, Tiefu; Habicht, Jean‐Pierre; Chang, Yaxuan

doi:10.1056/nejm199608083350606

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“…show that secular growth in mainland Chinese infants continued into the 1990's Shen et al, 1996). Studies also report a decline in the prevalence of malnutrition.…”

Section: Growth Of Chinese Infants In Chinamentioning

confidence: 98%

The growth and feeding patterns of 9 to 12 month old Chinese Canadian infants

Sit

Yeung

et al. 2001

Nutrition Research

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“…show that secular growth in mainland Chinese infants continued into the 1990's Shen et al, 1996). Studies also report a decline in the prevalence of malnutrition.…”

Section: Growth Of Chinese Infants In Chinamentioning

confidence: 98%

The growth and feeding patterns of 9 to 12 month old Chinese Canadian infants

Sit

Yeung

et al. 2001

Nutrition Research

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“…Economic growth is well known to be associated with improved nutritional status (Fogel, 2004), and China's experience is no exception. In 1990, the average height of children aged two to five in seven provinces was 92.5 cm in rural areas, an increase of 3.8 cm from the average in 1975 (Shen et al, 1996). Improvement in children's growth has continued since then as children's average HAZ, WAZ, and WHZ (weight-for-height z-score) increased dramatically between 1990…”

Section: Nutritional Status Of Rural Childrenmentioning

confidence: 99%

Migration and young child nutrition: evidence from rural China

Ren

Brauw

2015

J Popul Econ

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Standard-Nutzungsbedingungen:Die Dokumente auf EconStor dürfen zu eigenen wissenschaftlichen Zwecken und zum Privatgebrauch gespeichert und kopiert werden.Sie dürfen die Dokumente nicht für öffentliche oder kommerzielle Zwecke vervielfältigen, öffentlich ausstellen, öffentlich zugänglich machen, vertreiben oder anderweitig nutzen.Sofern die Verfasser die Dokumente unter Open-Content-Lizenzen (insbesondere CC-Lizenzen) zur Verfügung gestellt haben sollten, gelten abweichend von diesen Nutzungsbedingungen die in der dort genannten Lizenz gewährten Nutzungsrechte. www.econstor.eu The Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) in Bonn is a local and virtual international research center and a place of communication between science, politics and business. IZA is an independent nonprofit organization supported by Deutsche Post Foundation. The center is associated with the University of Bonn and offers a stimulating research environment through its international network, workshops and conferences, data service, project support, research visits and doctoral program. IZA engages in (i) original and internationally competitive research in all fields of labor economics, (ii) development of policy concepts, and (iii) dissemination of research results and concepts to the interested public. Terms of use: Documents in D I S C U S S I O N P A P E R S E R I E SIZA Discussion Papers often represent preliminary work and are circulated to encourage discussion. Citation of such a paper should account for its provisional character. A revised version may be available directly from the author. The unprecedented large scale rural-to-urban migration in China has left many rural children living apart from their parents. In this study, we examine the impact of parental migration on the nutritional status of young children in rural areas. We use the interaction terms between wage growth in provincial capital cities and initial village migrant networks as instrumental variables to account for migration selection. Our results show that parental migration has no significant impact on the height of children, but it improves their weight. We provide suggestive evidence that the improvement in weight may be achieved through increased access to tap water in migrant households. Concerns about the sustainability of the impact on weight are raised in the conclusions.JEL Classification: I1, J6, O1

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“…However, the increase in urban areas was five times that of rural areas. 10 Since the economic reforms, income inequalities have increased between western rural areas and coastal areas, as well as between and within rural and urban areas. 11 These inequalities have probably influenced the regional distribution of malnutrition and how this distribution has changed over time.…”

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