Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/236445 
Year of Publication: 
2021
Series/Report no.: 
IZA Discussion Papers No. 14414
Publisher: 
Institute of Labor Economics (IZA), Bonn
Abstract: 
This paper explores the changing trend of adult height in China for cohorts born in 1950-90. We use information on the household structure and local economic conditions during the individual's childhood to explain the trend. We find that during the 40-year period, the growth rate of adult height increased, with the most substantial increase occurring in the 1980s. One important contributing factor to the growth of adult height is the continued increase in government per capita spending on health and education. The impressive growth in the 1980s was mainly due to the introduction of market-oriented economic reforms, rather than the advent of the One-Child Policy. We find that the positive effect of economic reforms was larger for urban dwellers than for their rural counterparts and within the rural areas the benefit was far greater for men than for women.
Subjects: 
height
China
economic reform
JEL: 
I15
I18
J13
O1
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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