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
cg.contributor.affiliationUniversity of North Dakotaen
cg.contributor.affiliationPeking Universityen
cg.contributor.affiliationInternational Food Policy Research Instituteen
cg.contributor.affiliationBeijing Normal Universityen
cg.contributor.donorCGIAR Trust Funden
cg.contributor.initiativeFragility, Conflict, and Migration
cg.contributor.initiativeGender Equality
cg.coverage.countryChina
cg.coverage.iso3166-alpha2CN
cg.coverage.regionAsia
cg.coverage.regionSouth-eastern Asia
cg.creator.identifierxiaobo zhang: 0000-0002-4981-9565
cg.howPublishedFormally Publisheden
cg.identifier.doihttps://doi.org/10.1016/j.ehb.2024.101461en
cg.identifier.projectIFPRI - Development Strategies and Governance Unit
cg.identifier.publicationRankB
cg.isijournalISI Journalen
cg.issn1570-677Xen
cg.journalEconomics and Human Biologyen
cg.reviewStatusPeer Reviewen
cg.subject.actionAreaSystems Transformation
cg.subject.impactAreaGender equality, youth and social inclusion
cg.subject.impactAreaNutrition, health and food security
cg.subject.sdgSDG 5 - Gender equalityen
cg.volume56en
dc.contributor.authorTan, Chih Mingen
dc.contributor.authorZhang, Xiaoboen
dc.contributor.authorZhang, Xinen
dc.date.accessioned2024-12-18T20:47:08Zen
dc.date.available2024-12-18T20:47:08Zen
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10568/163752
dc.titleThe long-run and intergenerational impact of early exposure to the Great Chinese Famine of 1959–61 on mental healthen
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
dcterms.accessRightsOpen Access
dcterms.audienceScientistsen
dcterms.available2024-12-15
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
dcterms.issued2025-02
dcterms.languageen
dcterms.licenseCopyrighted; all rights reserved
dcterms.publisherElsevieren
dcterms.relationhttps://doi.org/10.1016/j.ehb.2023.101300en
dcterms.relationhttps://hdl.handle.net/10568/152649en
dcterms.relationhttps://doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-9353.2006.00290.xen
dcterms.subjectcapacity developmenten
dcterms.subjectfamineen
dcterms.subjectmental healthen
dcterms.subjectmenen
dcterms.subjectdataen
dcterms.subjectwomenen
dcterms.subjectgenderen
dcterms.typeJournal Article

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