Parental job loss and children's health: Ten years after the massive layoff of the SOEs' workers in China

China Economic Review

Volumn 31, Issue , 2014, Pages 303-319

  Liu, Hong ^a   Zhao, Zhong ^b  

^a CENTRAL UNIVERSITY OF FINANCE AND ECONOMICS   (China)

^b RENMIN UNIVERSITY OF CHINA   (China)

Author keywords

Children's health; China; Grossman model; Job loss

Indexed keywords

EID: 84909635552     PISSN: 1043951X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.chieco.2014.10.007     Document Type: Article

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