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1、ChildHealthandtheIncomeGradient:EvidencefromChina?No.E20100122010-09???Child?Health?and?the?Income?Gradient:?Evidence?from????China?1Yi?Chen??Xiaoyan?Lei??Li‐An?Zhou?No.?E2010012????September?9,?2010?AbstractThoughthepositiveincomegradientofchildhealthiswelldocumentedindev
2、elopedcountries,evidencefromdevelopingcountriesisrare.Fewstudiesattempttoidentify9><>acausallinkbetweenfamilyincomeandchildhealth.UtilizinguniquelongitudinaldatafromtheChinaHealthandNutritionSurvey,wehavefound<>apositive,age-enhancingincomegradientofchildhealth,measuredbyh
3、eight-for-agezscores.Thegradientisrobusttoalternativespecificationsand<>acomprehensivesetofcontrols.Usingthefactthattheruraltaxreformimplementedsince2000createdanexogenousvariationinfamilyincomeacrossregionsandovertime,weexplore<>acausalexplanationfortheincomegradient,andf
4、indthatithas<>averystrongindependentcausaleffectonchildhealth.JELclassification:I10,I12,O15Keywords:ChildHealth,IncomeGradient,RuralTaxReform?????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????We?would?like?to?thank?the?China?Health?and?Nutrition?Survey,?funde
5、d?by?NIH?(R01‐HD30880,?DK056350,?and?R01‐HD<#004699'>38700),?and?the?Carolina?Population?Center?and?the?Chinese?CDC?for?providing?these?data..?1?Yi?Chen:?Department?of?Economics,?University?of?California,?Los?Angele;?Email:?chenyiecon@ucla.edu.?Xiaoyan?Lei,?China?Center?fo
6、r?Economic?Research,?Peking?University;?Email:?xylei@ccer.edu.cn.?Li‐An?Zhou,?Guanghua?School?of?Management,?Peking?University;?Email:?zhoula@gsm.pku.edu.cn.??*ihlCdHeatlhadntehIcnomeGraidetn:ecnvEidefrmoihanC??iYCheniXaoyanLeiLi-nAhZouAbstractThoughthepositiveincomegradie
7、ntofchildhealthiswelldocumentedindevelopedcountries,evidencefromdevelopingcountriesisrare.Fewstudiesattempttoidentify<>acausallinkbetweenfamilyincomeandchildhealth.UtilizinguniquelongitudinaldatafromtheChinaHealthandNutritionSurvey,wehavefound<>apositive,age-enhancingincom
8、egradientofchildhealth,measuredbyheight-for-agezscores.Thegradientisrobusttoalternativesp