Health shocks and children's school attainments in rural China

Economics of Education Review

Volumn 29, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 375-382

  Sun, Ang ^a   Yao, Yang ^b  

^a BROWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b PEKING UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Health shocks; Human capital; School attainments

Indexed keywords

DATA SET; EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT; HUMAN CAPITAL; PANEL DATA; PRIMARY EDUCATION;

CHINA;

EID: 77950862946     PISSN: 02727757     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.econedurev.2009.04.006     Document Type: Article

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