Professor LINA SONG

Impact of pilot public hospital reform on efficiencies: a DEA analysis of county hospitals in East China, 2009–2015 (2025)
Journal Article
Jiang, W., Lou, X., Chen, Q., Song, L., & Chen, Z. (2025). Impact of pilot public hospital reform on efficiencies: a DEA analysis of county hospitals in East China, 2009–2015. Health Economics Review, 15, 16. https://doi.org/10.1186/s13561-025-00600-3

Background China started a pilot public hospital reform in 2012 to improve governance and efficiency in healthcare services delivery among county-level hospitals. This study aims to investigate the impact of the pilot reform on hospital efficiency an... Read More about Impact of pilot public hospital reform on efficiencies: a DEA analysis of county hospitals in East China, 2009–2015.

Impact of a health system vertical integration program on patient expenditures and healthcare utilization: Evidence from county hospitals in East China (2024)
Journal Article
Jiang, W., Chen, Q., Lou, X., Song, L., & Chen, Z. (2024). Impact of a health system vertical integration program on patient expenditures and healthcare utilization: Evidence from county hospitals in East China. China Economic Review, 87, 102250. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.chieco.2024.102250

In 2009, China launched a vertical integration pilot program to promote collaboration between tertiary and county hospitals to reduce rural-urban disparities and strengthen capacity building in healthcare services delivery in county healthcare facili... Read More about Impact of a health system vertical integration program on patient expenditures and healthcare utilization: Evidence from county hospitals in East China.

The Effects of Antenatal Care Utilisation on Birthweight: Evidence from Ghana (2024)
Journal Article
Bawuah, A., Appleton, S., Li, Y., & Song, L. (2025). The Effects of Antenatal Care Utilisation on Birthweight: Evidence from Ghana. Journal of African Economies, 34(1), 142–160. https://doi.org/10.1093/jae/ejae003

In 2015, about 20.5 million babies were born with low birthweight (LBW), with the majority from low- and middle-income countries. The use of antenatal care (ANC) is a recommended health policy measure to reduce the risk of LBW. However, there is limi... Read More about The Effects of Antenatal Care Utilisation on Birthweight: Evidence from Ghana.

Who Looks after the Kids? The Effects of Childcare Choice on Early Childhood Development in China (2021)
Journal Article
Zhang, J., Appleton, S., Song, L., & Liu, B. (2021). Who Looks after the Kids? The Effects of Childcare Choice on Early Childhood Development in China. Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics, 83(3), 619-640. https://doi.org/10.1111/obes.12410

This paper examines whether childcare choice affects the early childhood development of children aged 7-59 months. Using the data from Chinese Family Panel Surveys, we look at household choices between parental and grandparental cares and the timing... Read More about Who Looks after the Kids? The Effects of Childcare Choice on Early Childhood Development in China.

Framing effects on bribery behaviour: experimental evidence from China and Uganda (2018)
Journal Article
Gaggero, A., Appleton, S., & Song, L. (2018). Framing effects on bribery behaviour: experimental evidence from China and Uganda. Journal- Economic Science Association, 4(1). https://doi.org/10.1007/s40881-018-0049-2

In this study we investigate the effect of framing on bribery behaviour. To do this, we replicate Barr and Serra (Exp Econ, 12(4):488–503, (2009) and carry out a simple one-shot bribery game that mimics corruption. In one treatment, we presented the... Read More about Framing effects on bribery behaviour: experimental evidence from China and Uganda.

The impact of job contact networks on wages of rural–urban migrants in China: a switching regression approach (2017)
Journal Article
Long, W., Appleton, S., & Song, L. (2017). The impact of job contact networks on wages of rural–urban migrants in China: a switching regression approach. Journal of Chinese Economic and Business Studies, 15(1). https://doi.org/10.1080/14765284.2017.1287538

In nationally representative household data from the 2008 Chinese Rural to Urban Migration Survey, nearly two thirds of rural–urban migrants found their employment through family members, relatives, friends or acquaintances. This paper investigates w... Read More about The impact of job contact networks on wages of rural–urban migrants in China: a switching regression approach.

Urban wages in China (2014)
Book Chapter
Lina, S. (2014). Urban wages in China. In S. Fan, R. Kanbur, S.-J. Wei, & X. Zhang (Eds.), Oxford companion to the economics of China. Oxford University Press. https://global.oup.com/academic/product/the-oxford-companion-to-the-economics-of-china-9780199678204?cc=gb&lang=en&#

Understanding urban wage inequality in China 1988–2008: evidence from quantile analysis (2014)
Journal Article
Appleton, S., Song, L., & Xia, Q. (2014). Understanding urban wage inequality in China 1988–2008: evidence from quantile analysis. World Development, 62, 1-13. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.worlddev.2014.04.005

This paper examines change in wage gaps in urban China from 1988 to 2008 by estimating quantile regressions on CHIPS data. It applies the Machado and Mata (2005) decomposition, finding sharp increases in inequality largely due to changes in the wage... Read More about Understanding urban wage inequality in China 1988–2008: evidence from quantile analysis.

The effect of the state sector on wage inequality in urban China: 1988–2007 (2014)
Journal Article
Xia, Q., Song, L., Li, S., & Appleton, S. (2014). The effect of the state sector on wage inequality in urban China: 1988–2007. Journal of Chinese Economic and Business Studies, 12(1). https://doi.org/10.1080/14765284.2013.875282

This paper examines the effect of the public sector and state-owned enterprises (SOEs) on wage inequality in urban China using China Household Income Project data. It applies quantile regression analysis, the Machado and Mata decomposition to investi... Read More about The effect of the state sector on wage inequality in urban China: 1988–2007.

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