Linxiu Zhang

ORCID: 0000-0002-8386-0350
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Research Areas
  • China's Socioeconomic Reforms and Governance
  • Poverty, Education, and Child Welfare
  • Global Educational Reforms and Inequalities
  • School Choice and Performance
  • Child Nutrition and Water Access
  • Healthcare Systems and Reforms
  • Land Rights and Reforms
  • Global Maternal and Child Health
  • Local Government Finance and Decentralization
  • Rural development and sustainability
  • Iron Metabolism and Disorders
  • China's Ethnic Minorities and Relations
  • Migration and Labor Dynamics
  • Fiscal Policy and Economic Growth
  • Parental Involvement in Education
  • Agricultural Innovations and Practices
  • Early Childhood Education and Development
  • Demographic Trends and Gender Preferences
  • Healthcare Policy and Management
  • Environmental Impact and Sustainability
  • Agriculture Sustainability and Environmental Impact
  • Intergenerational and Educational Inequality Studies
  • Income, Poverty, and Inequality
  • Energy and Environment Impacts
  • Migration, Ethnicity, and Economy

Institute of Geographic Sciences and Natural Resources Research
2015-2024

Chinese Academy of Sciences
2015-2024

University of Chinese Academy of Sciences
2009-2024

United Nations Environment Programme
2018-2024

Guangdong Pharmaceutical University
2019

Renmin University of China
2016

Shaanxi Normal University
2014-2016

Sichuan University
2016

Peking University
2015-2016

Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences
2009-2015

China’s rapid development and urbanization have induced large numbers of rural residents to migrate from their homes urban areas in search better job opportunities. Parents typically leave children behind with a caregiver, creating new, potentially vulnerable subpopulation left-behind areas. A growing number policies nongovernmental organization efforts target these children. The primary objective this study was examine whether are really the most need special programs. Pulling data...

10.1377/hlthaff.2015.0150 article EN Health Affairs 2015-11-01

10.1086/380593 article EN Economic Development and Cultural Change 2004-01-01

Although there is evidence that was gender inequality in China's education system the 1980s, literature China has mixed on improvements educational attainment over past three decades. Some suggest still severe; others report progress. We seek to understand progress made (if any) reducing since 1980s. To meet this goal, we use a meta‐analysis approach which provides new quantitative review of relatively large volume empirical differentials. This article analyzes differences across both time...

10.1111/coep.12006 article EN Contemporary Economic Policy 2013-02-25

Since economic liberalization in the late 1970s, China's health care providers have grown heavily reliant on revenue from drugs, which they both prescribe and sell. To curb abuse to promote availability, safety, appropriate use of essential China introduced its national drug list 2009 implemented a zero markup policy designed decouple provider compensation prescription sales. We collected analyzed representative data township centers their catchment-area populations before after reform....

10.1377/hlthaff.2014.1114 article EN Health Affairs 2015-08-01

Abstract Students in rural China are dropping out of secondary school at troubling rates. While there is considerable quantitative research on this issue, no systematic effort has been made to assess the deeper reasons behind student decision making through a mixed-methods approach. This article seeks explore prevalence, correlates and potential for dropout throughout education process. It brings together results from eight large-scale survey studies covering 24,931 students across four...

10.1017/s0305741015001277 article EN The China Quarterly 2015-12-01

China's rapid urbanisation has induced large numbers of rural residents to migrate from their homes in the countryside urban areas search higher wages. As a consequence, it is estimated that more than 60 million children China are left behind and live with relatives, typically paternal grandparents. These called Left Behind Children (LBCs). There concerns about potential negative effects parental migration on academic performance LBCs could be due absence care. However, might also when...

10.1080/00220388.2017.1333108 article EN The Journal of Development Studies 2017-06-13

With the dramatic trend of global aging, physical and mental health rural elderly has attracted significant attention. Social support plays an important role in improving elderly. However, assessing impact social on is challenging China. This paper analyzes Chinese based data collected from households village cadres. Probit, Oprobit, ordinary least squares (OLS) are used to estimate these effects. The results show that 24.3% bad health, 32.9% them depressed. Physical worse among female those...

10.3390/ijerph17062004 article EN International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health 2020-03-18

Household consumption carbon footprint and inequality reductions are vital for a sustainable society, especially rural areas. This study, focusing on China, one of the fastest growing economies with massive population, explored household using latest micro survey data 2018 linked to environmental extended input–-output analysis. The results show that in average is 2.46 tons CO2-eq per capita, which around one-third China's footprint, indicating large potential further growth. Housing...

10.1021/acs.est.1c01374 article EN Environmental Science & Technology 2021-08-10

Abstract China is undergoing a campaign which called “The Targeted Poverty Alleviation Policy” to eradicate extreme poverty from rural until 2020. Though in has been studied intensively different objective dimensions, little attention paid line settings and subjective poverty, are hinged the policy effects. In order fill research gap, this study employs nationally representative survey of households 2016, measure China, analyze determinants as well. Our results indicate that mean 8297 yuan...

10.1007/s11205-020-02303-0 article EN cc-by Social Indicators Research 2020-03-04
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