Why China is likely to achieve its growth objectives / Robert W. Fogel -- The contribution of health and education to economic growth in China / Dean T. Jamison / Lawrence J. Lau / Jia Wang -- Education, innovation and economic growth / Xiaoguang Chen -- Endogenous health care and life expectancy in neoclassical growth model / Michael C.M. Leung / Yong Wang -- Demand for education in China / Gregory C. Chow / Yan Shen -- Human capital and educational demand in China: 2000-2030 / Xiaoying Zheng / Lihua Pang / Gong Chen / Yubo Liu / Lei Zhang / Mohammad Mainul Islam / Yan Lin / Haitao Wang -- Changes in the pattern of China's school enrollment rates between 1990 and 2000 / Rachel Connelly / Zhenzhen Zheng -- School attainment and cost of education in rural China / Linxiu Zhang / Chunhui Ye / Chengfang Liu / Scott Rozelle -- The educational consequences of migration for children in China / Zai Liang / Yiu Por Chen -- An economic analysis of health care in China / Gregory C. Chow -- A theoretical analysis for Chinese new rural cooperative medical system / H. Holly Wang -- Wealth, education and demand for medical care: evidence from rural China / Jin Feng / Bei Qin / Yangyang Yu -- Famine and overweight in China / Zhehui Luo / Ren Mu / Xiaobo Zhang -- Immunization uptake in China / Ake Blomqvist / Haoming Liu -- Changing health inequality in China: the role of relative income / Zhuo Chen / Steven T. Yen / David B. Eastwood -- The relationship between health and schooling / Michael Grossman -- Income productivity in China: on the role of health / Gordon G. Liu / Will H. Dow / Alex Z. Fu / John Akin / Peter Lance -- Ill health and its potential influence on household consumptions in rural China / Hong Wang / Licheng Zhang / William Hsiao -- Wages and returns to education in Chinese cities / Dennis Tao Yang -- The external returns to education: evidence from Chinese cities / Zhiqiang Liu -- Discrimination and development: the case of beauty in China / Daniel S. Hamermesh / Xin Meng / Junsen Zhang.