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Relative Economic Status and the Mental Health Status Among Chinese Adults: Evidence from the China Health and Retirement Longitudinal Study

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Since its market-oriented reforms in the early 1980s, the Chinese economy has been growing rapidly for more than three decades.

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Notes

  1. 1.

    The numbers of observations are different for the five different relative status measures in Table 5.2. For robustness check, we deleted observations with missing information on any one of the five relative economic status variables. We also include observations with missing information of relative status measures. Results are reported in Appendix Table 5.8, which remain similar to those in Table 5.2.

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    We also use individual income instead of family per capita income to measure absolute economic status, and results remain the same.

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See Tables 5.6, 5.7, 5.8 and 5.9.

Table 5.6 Descriptive statistics of original sample and study sample
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Table 5.7 Statistical tests on the validity of instrumental variables
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Table 5.8 Regression results (OLS) with same number of observations for five different relative status measures
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Table 5.9 OLS regressions results based on the married sample
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Qin, X., Hsieh, CR. (2023). Relative Economic Status and the Mental Health Status Among Chinese Adults: Evidence from the China Health and Retirement Longitudinal Study. In: Economic Analysis of Mental Health in China. Applied Economics and Policy Studies. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-99-4209-1_5

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