Malnutrition and mental health problems are both prevalent among rural students in China. To provide a better understanding of the functional linkage between these two problems, this study estimates the causal effect ...Malnutrition and mental health problems are both prevalent among rural students in China. To provide a better understanding of the functional linkage between these two problems, this study estimates the causal effect of improved nutrition on rural students’ mental health status, exploiting a randomized controlled trial involving 6 044 fourth and fifth graders in rural northwestern China. Estimation results show that a nutrition subsidy provided by the project significantly improved students’ mental health status(measured by their anxiety scale). However, an add-on incentive provided to school principals, which was tied to anemia reduction, almost entirely offset the beneficial impact of the nutrition subsidy. These findings suggest that to improve students’ mental health in rural China, not only direct subsidies, such as low-priced school meals, but also correct incentives, especially those tied closely to students’ mental health outcomes, should be provided.展开更多
This paper investigates the development of the heroine's psychology during the period presented in A Rose for Emily by displaying her experiences in chronological order and teasing out the details that may have ca...This paper investigates the development of the heroine's psychology during the period presented in A Rose for Emily by displaying her experiences in chronological order and teasing out the details that may have caused significant influence on Emily's mental state. It is concluded that Emily has developed a particularly strong desire for controlling and personal awareness under the social deprivation by her father for about thirty years, contributing to her twisted acknowledgement of her relationship with Homer, which are later triggered off when Homer refuses to marry her, finally into the seemingly inconceivable ending that Emily kills him and spends the rest forty years of her life with the decomposing corpse of her beloved one's.展开更多
基金financial support by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (71603261)the Humanities and Social Science Fund of Ministry of Education of China (16YJC880107, 18YJC790010)
文摘Malnutrition and mental health problems are both prevalent among rural students in China. To provide a better understanding of the functional linkage between these two problems, this study estimates the causal effect of improved nutrition on rural students’ mental health status, exploiting a randomized controlled trial involving 6 044 fourth and fifth graders in rural northwestern China. Estimation results show that a nutrition subsidy provided by the project significantly improved students’ mental health status(measured by their anxiety scale). However, an add-on incentive provided to school principals, which was tied to anemia reduction, almost entirely offset the beneficial impact of the nutrition subsidy. These findings suggest that to improve students’ mental health in rural China, not only direct subsidies, such as low-priced school meals, but also correct incentives, especially those tied closely to students’ mental health outcomes, should be provided.
文摘This paper investigates the development of the heroine's psychology during the period presented in A Rose for Emily by displaying her experiences in chronological order and teasing out the details that may have caused significant influence on Emily's mental state. It is concluded that Emily has developed a particularly strong desire for controlling and personal awareness under the social deprivation by her father for about thirty years, contributing to her twisted acknowledgement of her relationship with Homer, which are later triggered off when Homer refuses to marry her, finally into the seemingly inconceivable ending that Emily kills him and spends the rest forty years of her life with the decomposing corpse of her beloved one's.
