Xian Huang

Abstract China's social health insurance has expanded dramatically over the past decade. The increasing number of beneficiaries and benefits, however, has aggravated rather than mitigated regional disparities in health care. How can the regional variation in Chinese social health insurance be explained? This paper argues that the subnational variation in China's social health insurance results from the policy choices of central and local states. The central leadership, which is concerned about r

Abstract Authoritarian local leaders face two driving forces in social policymaking: top‐down pressure from the regime and bottom‐up motivations derived from local conditions. Existing studies recognize the importance of both forces, but remain unclear as to how they interact and which of them is more influential in driving local policy adoption. Focusing on two health insurance integration policies in China, we find that when the policy entails substantial class or distributive conflicts and bu

Objective Social mobility plays an important role in stabilizing the political order. This article leverages China's hukou (household registration) reforms to examine the effects of state‐engineered social mobility on individuals’ trust in the government. Methods Using China General Social Survey data for 2010 and entropy balancing for causal effects, this article provides empirical evidence for the attitudinal effects of social mobility at the individual level. Results It finds that, first, ind

A versatile combinatorial approach was developed for the rapid synthesis of 2-pyridones, 1,4-diazepines, and 1,4-oxazepines libraries. The synthetic strategy includes electrophilic addition, nucleophilic substitution, amine-acid condensation, Dieckmann condensation, lactamization, ester hydrolysis, lactonization, and oxidation-elimination.

This study provides one of the first empirical tests on the political impact of China’s anti-poverty cash transfer program: Dibao. Using the China Family Panel Study 2010 dataset and a propensity score matching method, we examined whether and how much the Dibao benefits have impacted recipients’ assessment of local government performance. To explore the heterogeneity effect of Dibao, we conducted the analysis in urban and rural samples respectively. Results show that receiving the Dibao benefit

OBJECTIVE: Evidence regarding the relationship between vitamin A and HPV infection was limited. Therefore, this study is designed to investigate whether vitamin A was independently related to HPV infection in 13412 American women from NHANES for seven cycles. METHODS: The present study is a cross-sectional study. A total of 13412 eligible participants who had available HPV tests and vitamin A intake data were registered in the NHANE database from 2003 to 2016. The targeted independent variable a

In the latter half of 20th century, human developed their ability of reconstructing physical world dramatically. Inevitably, the corresponding phenomenon of resources degradation, environmental deterioration and human health damage became more and more grievous decades by decades. Ecological compensation theory grown in the soil of sustainable development and became the common understanding of international circles. In the circumstance of constructing the resource-effective and environment-frien

This book explicates the political economy of the transformation of China’s social health insurance in the first decade of the 2000s, addressing the puzzling aspects of its expansion and explaining the political logic and distributive outcome thereof. More generally, it seeks to shed light on the following questions regarding social welfare provisions in authoritarian countries: in the absence of democratic mechanisms, why would authoritarian leaders expand welfare benefits? What are the distrib