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Education Impact on Health Shocks: Evidence from C.H.N.S. Data

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In the digital era, social and economic development directly related to education and health. The key question is to figure out the link between health and human capital through education. To solve this research question, the present study has investigated the impact of education on health shocks whether these health shocks are subjective or objective. To estimate the causal linkage including education and health, the Chinese Health and Nutrition Survey is examined through linear and multi-logit regression models respectively. The empirical estimates infer that higher education has a significant positive impact on health shocks, irrespective the subjective or an objective one. It also unfolds that it is more apparent in the Subjective than the objective health shock. Moreover, the more years of formal education significantly decreases the Subjective health shock.

Keywords

  • Education
  • Health Shock
  • Human capital
  • Chinese Health and Nutrition Survey
  • China

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Acknowledgements

The paper was financially supported by the National Social Science Fund of China “Research on the redistribution function of social security system: Research on the national social security fund’s intervention in pension insurance payment” (18BJY212) and “the Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities” in UIBE (CXTD9-04).

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  1. School of Insurance and Economics, University of International Business and Economics, Beijing, 100876, People’s Republic of China

    Issam Khelfaoui & Yuantao Xie

  2. The Centre of Industrial Economics and Green Development, BUPT, Beijing, 100876, People’s Republic of China

    Muhammad Hafeez

  3. Department of Accounting and Finance, Barret Hodgson University, Karachi, Pakistan

    Danish Ahmed

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  3. Faculty of Math and Science, Brock University, Hamilton, ON, Canada

    Prof. Dr. Syed Ejaz Ahmed

  4. ETSI Industriales de Ciudad Real, University of Castile-La Mancha (UCLM), Ciudad Real, Spain

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Khelfaoui, I., Xie, Y., Hafeez, M., Ahmed, D. (2020). Education Impact on Health Shocks: Evidence from C.H.N.S. Data. In: Xu, J., Duca, G., Ahmed, S., García Márquez, F., Hajiyev, A. (eds) Proceedings of the Fourteenth International Conference on Management Science and Engineering Management. ICMSEM 2020. Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing, vol 1190. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-49829-0_5

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