Health Consequences of Entrepreneurship in China: Evidence from Individual Fixed Effects Estimates

A plethora of research has focused on the economic outcomes of Chinese entrepreneurs, but few have analyzed their life outcomes, especially health consequences. Our research aims to understand entrepreneurial health by exploring the causality between entrepreneurship and health outcomes in the Chine...

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Published in:SAGE open 2024-10, Vol.14 (4)
Main Authors: Sun, Skylar Biyang, Ning, Jing, Yuan, Ke, Zhao, Xiaohang, Gong, Hongling
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Employees
Employers
Entrepreneurs
Entrepreneurship
Job satisfaction
Mental health
Self employment
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Summary:A plethora of research has focused on the economic outcomes of Chinese entrepreneurs, but few have analyzed their life outcomes, especially health consequences. Our research aims to understand entrepreneurial health by exploring the causality between entrepreneurship and health outcomes in the Chinese context. We extracted five waves of data from a nationally representative dataset, that is, the China Family Panel Survey (2010, 2012, 2014, 2016, and 2018), to explore the causal relation. To solve the potential health selection in entrepreneurship, we applied a linear fixed-effects model to extract the causal relationship. In addition, with a nested design, we explored the mechanisms in the causal process. For self-rated health, self-employed people (β = .0696, p 
ISSN:2158-2440
2158-2440
DOI:10.1177/21582440241304665