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Center for Chinese Aging Studies

What We Do

• The Center supports two Pardee RAND Graduate School dissertations each year to write a dissertation on China. The first two awardees are Liu Ying whose dissertation is on “Chinese Drug Safety: Exploring Evidence of the Effectiveness of China's State Food and Drug Administration (SFDA) Policies” and Lu Yang whose dissertation is entitled “The effect of food prices on individual body weight and body composition: evidence from China (1991-2006).”
• The Center also supports a post-doctoral fellowship for a Chinese scholar to spend a year in residence at Rand. The aim is to facilitate joint research on aging issues.
• The Center supports the Chinese Aging and Retirement Longitudinal Study of Aging- CHARLS. CHARLS is a major initiative lead by scholars at the Chinese Center for Economic Research- CCER- at Peking University. Professor Zhou Yaohui of CCER is the Principal Investigator of CHARLS which is modeled after the Health and Retirement Surveys which currently exist in the USA, England, fifteen European countries in the SHARE network, Japan, South Korea, India, Thailand and China. Dr. James P. Smith is chair of the international advisory committee for CHARLS and Dr. Arie Kapteyn is a member of that committee. Programming of the CHARLS instruments is conducted by a team lead by Bas Weerman.
• The Center supports research collaboration with Chinese scholars. Five Chinese visiting scholars (any rank) are invited per year for two weeks per visit to work with Rand researchers
• The Center supports joint research projects with Chinese scholars. The first funded project is on “Causal pathways between SES and Health in China.” The principal investigators of the project are Dr. James P. Smith (Rand) and Professor Shen Yan (CCER).