Large-scale school meal programs and student health: Evidence from rural China
In: China economic review, Band 79, S. 101974
ISSN: 1043-951X
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In: China economic review, Band 79, S. 101974
ISSN: 1043-951X
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In: Habitat international: a journal for the study of human settlements, Band 117, S. 102442
In: IFPRI Discussion Paper 2009
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Reducing urban-rural gaps in child health and nutrition is one of the most difficult challenges faced by many countries. This paper evaluates the impact of the Nutrition Improvement Program (NIP), a large-scale school meal program in rural China, on the health and nutritional status of compulsory education students aged 6-16. We use data from multiple rounds of the China Health and Nutrition Survey between 2004-2015 and implement a quasi-experimental approach exploiting cross-county variations in program implementation. We find that NIP participation is, on average, associated with a higher height-for-age z-score in the order of 0.22-0.42 standard deviations. The impacts are larger among students in a better health condition but small or not significant among the most disadvantaged. We do not observe heterogeneous effects across several individual and household characteristics. We also do not find significant effects on Body Mass Index-for-age and weight-for-age z scores. The results suggest that NIP partially improved students' health over the first years of implementation, but more support is needed to achieve broader impacts that effectively reach all vulnerable students. Several robustness checks support our findings. ; Non-PR ; IFPRI1; DCA; 2 Promoting Healthy Diets and Nutrition for all; 5 Strengthening Institutions and Governance ; MTID
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In: Environmental and resource economics, Band 77, Heft 4, S. 751-780
ISSN: 1573-1502
AbstractAir pollution is a major environmental issue in China. This paper exploits the relocation of two major power plants in a large Chinese city as a quasi-natural experiment to examine the effect of changes in the quality of the environment on the housing market. We use an extensive transaction dataset of new apartment units in the affected and neighboring areas. We find that the plants' closure is associated with a 12–14% increase in prices and 13–31% rise in the volume of transactions in neighborhoods within five kilometers of the plants. We further observe a higher change in prices among more expensive houses. The estimated monthly aggregate effect of the closures on the local housing market is over 50 million US dollars during the first 2 years after the relocations.
In: Emerging markets, finance and trade: EMFT, Band 53, Heft 9, S. 2020-2038
ISSN: 1558-0938
In: Emerging markets, finance and trade: EMFT, Band 51, Heft 6, S. 1099-1116
ISSN: 1558-0938
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In: NBER Working Paper No. w19515
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In: JPUBE-D-22-00040
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In: CHIECO-D-22-00221
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In: Emerging markets, finance and trade: EMFT, Band 57, Heft 2, S. 400-426
ISSN: 1558-0938
In: FRL-D-23-01478
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In: Economic Analysis and Policy, Band 83, S. 301-313