Date:2026-05-29 Click：
Recently, the academic paper, Public Health, Human Capital, and Economic Growth: The Lasting Effects of Disease Control in China, co-authored by He Fan, a faculty member of the School of Public Finance and Taxation, was published online in the top-tier international economics journal Review of Economics and Statistics. This represents a significant research achievement by a faculty member of JUFE published in a high-level international economics journal. According to publicly available information, this work is also the first economics paper from Jiangxi Province to be published in this journal, marking a new and important breakthrough for our university in the fields of public economics, development economics, and applied micro-econometrics.
The Review of Economics and Statistics, founded in 1919, is one of the most top-tier academic journals in international economics. It has long published research of theoretical significance and empirical value aimed at a broad economics readership, and enjoys a prestigious academic reputation in fields such as public economics, development economics, labor economics, political economy, and applied econometrics.
This paper provides a systematic examination of China’s nationwide public health campaigns against malaria, measles, and meningitis from the 1960s to the 1980s. Leveraging variation in pre-intervention disease prevalence across cities—drawn from local public health annals—and differences in exposure to these campaigns across birth cohorts, the study combines city-level epidemiological data with longitudinal household survey data to identify the long-term impacts of disease control on individual outcomes.
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