An Examination of Urban Versus Rural Mortality in China Using Community and Individual Data

Zimmer, Zachary; Kaneda, Toshiko; Spess, Laura

doi:10.1093/geronb/62.5.s349

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“…This is consistent with the better average health outcomes that are usually found in more urban areas (Van de Poel et al, 2007;Zimmer et al, 2007). The combination of the positive effect of the time-varying treatment dummy and the negative effect of the time invariant treatment group dummy indicates that people living in areas that eventually become urbanized are originally in better health than 15 The model using worsehealth as dependent variable exploits more of the variation in SAH and therefore uses more observations.…”

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“…On average, health outcomes are found to be better in urban parts of the developing world ( Van de Poel et al, 2007;Zimmer et al, 2007). This apparent urban health advantage contrasts with the historical evidence of urban populations suffering poorer health in Western Europe prior to and during its period of industrialization (Rosen, 1958;Woods, 1985Woods, , 2003.…”

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The Health Penalty of China's Rapid Urbanization

2009

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Rapid urbanization could have positive and negative health effects, such that the net impact on population health is not obvious. It is, however, highly pertinent to the human welfare consequences of development. This paper uses community and individual level longitudinal data from the China Health and Nutrition Survey to estimate the net health impact of China's unprecedented urbanization. We construct an index of urbanicity from a broad set of community characteristics and define urbanization in terms of movements across the distribution of this index. We use difference-in-differences estimators to identify the treatment effect of urbanization on the self-assessed health of individuals. The results reveal important, and robust, negative causal effects of urbanization on health. Urbanization increases the probability of reporting fair or poor health by 5 to 15 percentage points, with a greater degree of urbanization having larger health effects. While people in more urbanized areas are, on average, in better health than their rural counterparts, the process of urbanization is damaging to health. Our measure of self-assessed health is highly correlated with subsequent mortality and the causal harmful effect of urbanization on health is confirmed using more objective (but also more specific) health indicators, such as physical impairments, disease symptoms and hypertension.

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The Health Penalty of China's Rapid Urbanization

2009

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“…Chinese in Zimmer et al [2007]. 43 The uncertainty in longevity should contribute to pre-cautionary saving.…”

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Explaining low employment rates among older women in urban China

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2016

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“…This economic gap between the urban and the rural has adversely influenced the health of the rural population in China. In fact, rural mortality is about 30% higher than urban mortality [13].…”

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