Long Work Hours And Health In China

标题Long Work Hours And Health In China
出版物类型期刊文章
出版物年份2015
作者Nie, Peng, Otterbach, Steffen, and Sousa-Poza, Alfonso
期刊China Economic Review
Volume33
Pagination212 - 229
Date Published2015///
关键词China, Chinese workers, health, lifestyle, work hours
Abstract

Using several waves of the China Health and Nutrition Survey (CHNS), this study analyzes the effect of long work hours on health and lifestyles in a sample of 18- to 65-year-old Chinese workers. Although working long hours does significantly increase the probabilities of high blood pressure and poorer reported health, the effects are small. Also small are the negative effects of long work hours on sleep time, fat intake, and the probabilities of sports participation or watching TV. We find no positive association between work time and different measures of obesity and no evidence of any association with calorie intake, food preparation and cooking time, or the sedentary activities of reading, writing, or drawing. In general, after controlling for a rich set of covariates and unobserved individual heterogeneity, we find little evidence that long work hours affect either the health or lifestyles of Chinese workers.

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