Sex ratios and mental health: Evidence from China

Zhang, Kezhong; He, Fan; Ma, Yuanyuan

doi:10.1016/j.ehb.2021.101014

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“…Concerning the control variables, our results are generally consistent with the previous literature [ 45 , 46 ]. For example, it was found that male and married respondents can report higher levels of mental state than female ones.…”

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confidence: 92%

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Heterogeneity Influence of Financial Digitalization and Inclusion on Employees’ Psychological States

Zhang

Yang

2023

Behavioral Sciences

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Digital inclusive finance (DIF) has the power to spawn a new system of Internet finance and realize financial inclusion. However, the role of DIF in improving the health status of individuals is largely unknown. This study aims to demonstrate whether and how the development of DIF impacts the mental health of Chinese employees. This paper performs an empirical study based on the city-level data of the digital inclusive financial index with the China family panel studies. Ordinary least squares (OLS), probit models and mediation techniques are employed with appropriate instruments to alleviate endogeneity concerns. The results show that DIF can help employees improve their mental health. The results were robust to a variety of checks. Moreover, increasing income is the main pathway in which DIF improves individual mental health. Finally, it also reveals the heterogeneous effects of DIF on individual mental health. That is, the use depth of DIF has a significant positive effect on mental health status, but not on other sub-indicators, such as coverage breadth and degree of digital service provision; on those vulnerable groups containing females and employees with low education, its decisive role is larger than their counterparts who are males and have high levels of education. These results highlight the vital role of DIF in improving the mental health status of individuals. Consequently, there is a need to strengthen the construction of financial infrastructure and achieve a deeper integration of the financial system with digital technologies.

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confidence: 92%

“…Referring to the practices in mainstream research on mental health in China [ 43 , 44 , 45 , 46 ], we included a battery of control variables to reflect individual, household, and city level characteristics. First, individual-level factors included in the empirical design are age, male, marital status, Hu-Kou , and years of education.…”

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Heterogeneity Influence of Financial Digitalization and Inclusion on Employees’ Psychological States

Zhang

Yang

2023

Behavioral Sciences

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“…Some studies show a correlation between sex ratio and national health ( 50 ). For this reason, this paper controls sex ratio and uses the ratio of the number of males to the number of females to measure it.…”

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Health effect of public sports services and public health services: empirical evidence from China

Cao,

Cai,

Gong

et al. 2024

Front. Public Health

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There is no clear explanation for the extraordinary rebound in China’s population mortality over the past decade. This paper utilizes panel data from 31 Chinese provinces from 2010 to 2020 to determine the distinct impacts of public sports services (PSS), public health services (PMS), and their interaction on population mortality. Empirical results show that public sports services significantly reduce mortality. Every unit increase in public sports services reduces mortality by about 2.3%. It is characterized by delayed realization. Public health services were surprisingly associated with a rebound in mortality. Further studies found strong health effect from interaction of public sports and health services. The effect was significantly strengthened in areas with fewer extreme temperatures or developed economy. The findings have important policy implications for the high-quality development of public sports and health services. It also emphasizes integration of sports and medicine and mitigates health risks associated with extreme temperatures.

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Exploring the Victim-Offender Overlap in Intimate Partner Violence among Chinese Men and Women Living in Rural China

Kuo,

Zhang,

Chang

et al. 2023

J Fam Viol

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Sex ratios and mental health: Evidence from China

Cited by 4 publications

References 55 publications

Heterogeneity Influence of Financial Digitalization and Inclusion on Employees’ Psychological States

Heterogeneity Influence of Financial Digitalization and Inclusion on Employees’ Psychological States

Health effect of public sports services and public health services: empirical evidence from China

Exploring the Victim-Offender Overlap in Intimate Partner Violence among Chinese Men and Women Living in Rural China

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