Local area crime and energy poverty

SA Churchill, R Smyth - Energy economics, 2022 - Elsevier
Energy poverty is a distinct form of poverty that the International Energy Agency estimates
could affect as many as one billion people globally. In high-income countries, it is primarily …

More is less: Homeroom teachers' administrative duties and students' achievements in China

B Chen, C Zhao - Teaching and Teacher Education, 2022 - Elsevier
This paper investigated causal effects of homeroom teachers'(HTs') administrative duties on
students' achievements in Chinese secondary schools. Using data from China Education …

Parental misbeliefs and household investment in children's education

H Wang, Z Cheng, R Smyth - Economics of Education Review, 2022 - Elsevier
We examine the effect of parental misbeliefs about their child's academic achievement on
household investment in children's education in China. We find that nearly 60% of parents …

Early-life experience of land reform and entrepreneurship

Y Chen, H Wang, Z Cheng, R Smyth - China Economic Review, 2023 - Elsevier
We examine the long-run impact of land reform experience in childhood and adolescence
on entrepreneurship later in life. To do so, we take advantage of village-level variation in the …

Migrating with parents or left-behind: Associations of internal migration with cognitive and noncognitive outcomes among chinese children

X Zheng, Y Zhang, W Jiang - Current Psychology, 2023 - Springer
Migration not only represents geographical movements of residence but also plays an
important role in the well-being of migrants and their children. This study is one of the first to …

An Untapped Instrument in the Fight Against Poverty: The Impacts of Financial Literacy on Poverty Worldwide

ND Lang, HM Tran, GT Nguyen, DH Vo - Social Indicators Research, 2024 - Springer
Abstract The World Bank assessed that meeting the goal of eradicating extreme poverty by
2030 appears to be challenging (or even impossible) for the world. This observation …

School feeding program and urban–rural inequality of child health: Evidence from China

J Ren, X Zheng, R Smith, X Fang - Agribusiness, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
School feeding programs have served as go‐to policies for addressing child malnutrition in
both developed and developing countries. While an increasing number of studies have …

School feeding and children's noncognitive skills: Evidence from the Nutrition Improvement Program in rural China

X Zheng, J Ren, D Chen, X Fang - Applied Economics, 2023 - Taylor & Francis
The health and education consequences of school feeding programs have been well
established, however, evidence regarding such programs' spillover effects on children's …

University education, homeownership and housing wealth

H Wang, Z Cheng, R Smyth, G Sun, J Li… - China Economic Review, 2022 - Elsevier
We utilise the implementation of the 1999 higher education expansion in China as a natural
experiment to examine the relationship between university educational attainment …

Free school meals and cognitive ability: Evidence from China's student nutrition improvement plan

X Duan, Y Liang, X Peng - Health Economics, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract The China Student Nutrition Improvement Plan (SNIP) covers 40.6 million students
in the compulsory education stage, accounting for 42% of all students enrolled in rural …