Investing in human capital for economic development in China / 
edited by Gordon G. Liu, Peking University, China, Shufang Zhang, Harvard University, USA, Zongyi Zhang, Chongqing University, China. 
 - New Jersey :   World Scientific,  2010 
 - 401 p:  ill. 
<br/><br/> "This book draws on and extends from the papers presented at the Chinese Economists Society (CES) annual international conference on "Sustainable Economic Growth in China: Investing in Human Capital and Environment", held in June 2005 in Chongqing, China"--Page xi. 
<br/><br/> Why China is likely to achieve its growth objectives /  The contribution of health and education to economic growth in China /  Education, innovation and economic growth /  Endogenous health care and life expectancy in neoclassical growth model /  Demand for education in China /  Human capital and educational demand in China: 2000-2030 /  Changes in the pattern of China's school enrollment rates between 1990 and 2000 /  School attainment and cost of education in rural China /  The educational consequences of migration for children in China /  An economic analysis of health care in China /  A theoretical analysis for Chinese new rural cooperative medical system /  Wealth, education and demand for medical care: evidence from rural China /  Famine and overweight in China /  immunization uptake in China /  Changing health inequality in China: the role of relative income /  The relationship between health and schooling /  Income productivity in China: on the role of health /  Ill health and its potential influence on household consumptions in rural China /  Wages and returns to education in Chinese cities /  The external returns to education: evidence from Chinese cities /  Discrimination and development: the case of beauty in China /  Robert W. Fogel --  Dean T. Jamison /  Lawrence J. Lau /  Jia Wang --  Xiaoguang Chen --  Michael C.M. Leung /  Yong Wang --  Gregory C. Chow /  Yan Shen --  Xiaoying Zheng /  Lihua Pang /  Gong Chen /  Yubo Liu /  Lei Zhang /  Mohammad Mainul Islam /  Yan Lin /  Haitao Wang --  Rachel Connelly /  Zhenzhen Zheng --  Linxiu Zhang /  Chunhui Ye /  Chengfang Liu /  Scott Rozelle --  Zai Liang /  Yiu Por Chen --  Gregory C. Chow --  H. Holly Wang --  Jin Feng /  Bei Qin /  Yangyang Yu --  Zhehui Luo /  Ren Mu /  Xiaobo Zhang --  Ake Blomqvist /  Haoming Liu --  Zhuo Chen /  Steven T. Yen /  David B. Eastwood --  Michael Grossman --  Gordon G. Liu /  Will H. Dow /  Alex Z. Fu /  John Akin /  Peter Lance --  Hong Wang /  Licheng Zhang /  William Hsiao --  Dennis Tao Yang --  Zhiqiang Liu --  Daniel S. Hamermesh /  Xin Meng /  Junsen Zhang.  HKBU library 
<br/><br/> YT2025 M09 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9812814418 9789812814418 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Economic development--China<br/>Human capital--China<br/>Education--China<br/>Medical care--China<br/>Economic development.<br/>Economic history.<br/>Education.<br/>Human capital.<br/>Medical care.
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Geographic Terms: </label><br/>China--Economic conditions--2000-<br/>China--Economic conditions--1976-2000<br/>China.<br/>Kina--ekonomiska förhållanden--1976-2000<br/>Ekonomisk utveckling--Kina<br/>Humankapital--Kina<br/>Hälso- och sjukvård--Kina
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>HC427  / I62 2010