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Sun, Ang; Yao, Yang – Economics of Education Review, 2010
Using a long panel dataset of Chinese farm households covering the period of 1987-2002, this paper studies how major health shocks happening to household adults affect children's school attainments. We find that primary school-age children are the most vulnerable to health shocks, with their chances to enter middle school dropping by 9.9…
Descriptors: Educational Attainment, Birth Order, Foreign Countries, Rural Areas