The long-run and intergenerational impact of early exposure to the Great Chinese Famine of 1959–61 on mental health

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cg.authorship.typesCGIAR and advanced research instituteen_US
cg.contributor.affiliationUniversity of North Dakotaen_US
cg.contributor.affiliationPeking Universityen_US
cg.contributor.affiliationInternational Food Policy Research Instituteen_US
cg.contributor.affiliationBeijing Normal Universityen_US
cg.contributor.donorCGIAR Trust Funden_US
cg.contributor.initiativeFragility, Conflict, and Migrationen_US
cg.contributor.initiativeGender Equalityen_US
cg.coverage.countryChinaen_US
cg.coverage.iso3166-alpha2CNen_US
cg.coverage.regionAsiaen_US
cg.coverage.regionSouth-eastern Asiaen_US
cg.creator.identifierxiaobo zhang: 0000-0002-4981-9565en_US
cg.howPublishedFormally Publisheden_US
cg.identifier.doihttps://doi.org/10.1016/j.ehb.2024.101461en_US
cg.identifier.projectIFPRI - Development Strategies and Governance Uniten_US
cg.identifier.publicationRankBen_US
cg.isijournalISI Journalen_US
cg.issn1570-677Xen_US
cg.journalEconomics and Human Biologyen_US
cg.reviewStatusPeer Reviewen_US
cg.subject.actionAreaSystems Transformationen_US
cg.subject.impactAreaGender equality, youth and social inclusionen_US
cg.subject.impactAreaNutrition, health and food securityen_US
cg.subject.sdgSDG 5 - Gender equalityen_US
cg.volume56en_US
dc.contributor.authorTan, Chih Mingen_US
dc.contributor.authorZhang, Xiaoboen_US
dc.contributor.authorZhang, Xinen_US
dc.date.accessioned2024-12-18T20:47:08Zen_US
dc.date.available2024-12-18T20:47:08Zen_US
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10568/163752en_US
dc.titleThe long-run and intergenerational impact of early exposure to the Great Chinese Famine of 1959–61 on mental healthen_US
dcterms.abstractWe study the effects of early exposure to the Great Chinese Famine on the mental health and subjective well-being of survivors as well as their offspring using data from the 2010 and 2014 waves of the China Family Panel Studies. Our analysis focuses on K6 scores, severe mental illness, and life dissatisfaction. We find that early exposure to the famine has impaired the mental health outcomes of women, but not men (i.e., the first generation). For the second generation, negative effects only show up among the sons of male famine survivors. Some preliminary evidence suggests that the mechanism for such transmission may have to do with the cultural son preference.en_US
dcterms.accessRightsOpen Accessen_US
dcterms.audienceScientistsen_US
dcterms.available2024-12-15en_US
dcterms.bibliographicCitationTan, Chih Ming; Zhang, Xiaobo; and Zhang, Xin. 2025. The long-run and intergenerational impact of early exposure to the Great Chinese Famine of 1959–61 on mental health. Economics and Human Biology 56(February 2025): 101461. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ehb.2024.101461en_US
dcterms.issued2025-02en_US
dcterms.languageenen_US
dcterms.licenseCopyrighted; all rights reserveden_US
dcterms.publisherElsevieren_US
dcterms.relationhttps://doi.org/10.1016/j.ehb.2023.101300en_US
dcterms.relationhttps://hdl.handle.net/10568/152649en_US
dcterms.relationhttps://doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-9353.2006.00290.xen_US
dcterms.subjectcapacity developmenten_US
dcterms.subjectfamineen_US
dcterms.subjectmental healthen_US
dcterms.subjectmenen_US
dcterms.subjectdataen_US
dcterms.subjectwomenen_US
dcterms.subjectgenderen_US
dcterms.typeJournal Articleen_US

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