Publications

Sean Y. Sylvia, Renfu Luo, Jingdong Zhong, Sarah Dill, Alexis Medina, Scott Rozelle (2022). Passive versus active service delivery: Comparing the effects of two parenting interventions on early cognitive development in rural China. World Development.

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Huan Wang, Markus Zhang, Robin Li, Oliver Zhong, Hannah Johnstone, Huan Zhou, Hao Xue, Sean Sylvia, Matthew Boswell, Prashant Loyalka, Scott Rozelle (2021). Tracking the Effects of COVID-19 in Rural China over Time. International Journal for Equity in Health.

Dorien Emmers, Qi Jiang, Hao Xue, Yue Zhang, Yunting Zhang, Yingxue Zhao, Bin Liu, Sarah-Eve Dill, Yiwei Qian, Nele Warrinnier, Hannah Johnstone, Jianhua Cai, Xiaoli Wang, Lei Wang, Renfu Luo, Guirong Li, Jiajia Xu, Ming Liu, Yaqing Huang, Wenjie Shan, Zhihui Li, Yu Zhang, Sean Sylvia, Yue Ma, Alexis Medina, Scott Rozelle (2021). Early Childhood Development and Parental Training Interventions in Rural China: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis. BMJ Global Health.

Qingzhi Wang, Sasmita Poudel Adhikari, Yuju Wu, Thankam S. Sunil, Yuping Mao, Ruixue Ye, Chang Sun, Yaojiang Shi, Chengchao Zhou, Sean Sylvia, Scott Rozelle, Huan Zhou (2021). Consultation Length, Process Quality and Diagnosis Quality of Primary Care in Rural China: A Cross-Sectional Standardized Patient Study. Patient Education and Counseling.

Lei Wang, Nele Warrinnier, Yiwei Qian, Sean Sylvia, Orazio Attanasio, Scott Rozelle (2021). Parental Investment, School Choice, and the Persistent Benefits of Intervention in Early Childhood. Working Paper.

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Sean Sylvia, Nele Warrinnier, Renfu Luo, Ai Yue, Orazio Attanasio, Alexis Medina, Scott Rozelle (2021). From Quantity to Quality: Delivering a Home-Based Parenting Intervention Through China's Family Planning Cadres. The Economic Journal.

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Jingchun Nie, Lifang Zhang, Jiayuan Gao, Jason Li, Qian Zhou, Yaojiang Shi, Sean Sylvia, Nathan Congdon (2021). Using Incognito Standardised Patients to Evaluate Quality of Eye Care in China. British Journal of Ophthalmology.

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Rui Li, Nathan Rose, Yi Ming Zheng, Yunwei Chen, Sean Sylvia, Henry Wilson-Smith, Alexis Medina, Sarah-Eve Dill, Scott Rozelle (2021). Early Childhood Reading in Rural China and Obstacles to Caregiver Investment in Young Children: A Mixed-Methods Analysis. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health.

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Sean Y. Sylvia, Hongmei Yi, Hao Xue, Gordon G. Liu (2021). Public Service Quality under Permanent and Fixed-Term Employment Contracts: Evidence from Physician Supply of Primary Care. Working Paper.

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Jing Zhang, Jun-Jie Xu, Hong-Yi Wang, Xiao-Jie Huang, Yao-Kai Chen, Hui Wang, Zhen-Xing Chu, Qing-Hai Hu, Xiao-Qing He, Yao Li, Lu-Kun Zhang, Zhi-Li Hu, Ran-Tong Bao, Shang-Cao Li, Hang Li, Hai-Bo Ding, Yong-Jun Jiang, Wen-Qing Geng, Sean Sylvia, Hong Shang (2021). Preference for Daily versus On-Demand Pre-Exposure Prophylaxis for HIV and Correlates among Men Who Have Sex with Men: The China Real-World Oral PrEP Demonstration Study. Journal of the International AIDS Society.

Marisa Elena Domino, Sean Y. Sylvia, Sherri Green (2021). Nudging Primary Care Providers into Expanding the Labor Force for Opioid Use Disorder: A Statewide Experiment. Health Services Research.

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Xiaochen Ma, Huan Wang, Yaojiang Shi, Sean Sylvia, Lei Wang, Yiwei Qian, Scott Rozelle (2021). Improving Learning by Improving Vision: Evidence from Two Randomized Controlled Trials of Providing Vision Care in China. Journal of Development Effectiveness.

Sean Y. Sylvia, Xiaochen Ma, Yaojiang Shi, Scott Rozelle (2021). Cost-Effectiveness of Strategies to Improve Eyeglass Access among School Children: Evidence from a Randomized Experiment. Working Paper.

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Min Su, Zhongliang Zhou, Yafei Si, Sean Sylvia, Gang Chen, Yanfang Su, Scott Rozelle, Xiaolin Wei (2021). Comparing the Quality of Primary Care between Public and Private Providers in Urban China: A Standardized Patient Study. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health.

Kathryn D. Jackson, Colleen R. Higgins, Sarah K. Laing, Chiluba Mwila, Tamaki Kobayashi, Matthew M. Ippolito, Sean Sylvia, Sachiko Ozawa (2020). Impact of Substandard and Falsified Antimalarials in Zambia: Application of the SAFARI Model. BMC Public Health.

Peipei Fu, Yi Wang, Shimeng Liu, Jiajia Li, Qiufeng Gao, Chengchao Zhou, Qingyue Meng, Sean Sylvia (2020). Analysing the Preferences for Family Doctor Contract Services in Rural China: A Study Using a Discrete Choice Experiment. BMC Family Practice.

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Hongmei Yi, Huidi Liu, Zhiping Wang, Hao Xue, Sean Sylvia, Haonan Shi, Dirk E. Teuwen, Ying Han, Jiong Qin (2020). The Competence of Village Clinicians in the Diagnosis and Management of Childhood Epilepsy in Southwestern China and Its Determinants: A Cross-Sectional Study. The Lancet Regional Health - Western Pacific.

Huan Wang, Sarah-Eve Dill, Huan Zhou, Yue Ma, Hao Xue, Prashant Loyalka, Sean Sylvia, Matthew Boswell, Jason Lin, Scott Rozelle (2020). Off the Epicenter: COVID-19 Quarantine Controls and Employment, Education, and Health Impacts in Rural Communities. The China Quarterly.

Wilson Guo, Sean Sylvia, Karl Umble, Yunwei Chen, Xiaoyuan Zhang, Hongmei Yi (2020). The Competence of Village Clinicians in the Diagnosis and Treatment of Heart Disease in Rural China: A Nationally Representative Assessment. The Lancet Regional Health – Western Pacific.

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Huan Zhou, Ruixue Ye, Sean Sylvia, Nathan Rose, Scott Rozelle (2020). ``At Three Years of Age, We Can See the Future'': Cognitive Skills and the Life Cycle of Rural Chinese Children. Demographic Research.

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Yuju Wu, Huan Zhou, Xiao Ma, Yaojiang Shi, Hao Xue, Chengchao Zhou, Hongmei Yi, Alexis Medina, Jason Li, Sean Sylvia (2020). Using Standardised Patients to Assess the Quality of Medical Records: An Application and Evidence from Rural China. BMJ Quality & Safety.

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Hongmei Yi, Paiou Wu, Xiaoyuan Zhang, Dirk E. Teuwen, Sean Sylvia (2020). Market Competition and Demand for Skills in a Credence Goods Market: Evidence from Face-to-Face and Web-Based Non-Physician Clinician Training in Rural China. PLOS ONE.

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Fang Chang, Huan Wang, Yaqiong Qu, Qiang Zheng, Prashant Loyalka, Sean Sylvia, Yaojiang Shi, Sarah-Eve Dill, Scott Rozelle (2020). The Impact of Pay-for-Percentile Incentive on Low-Achieving Students in Rural China. Economics of Education Review.

Ai Yue, Yu Bai, Yaojiang Shi, Renfu Luo, Scott Rozelle, Alexis Medina, Sean Sylvia (2020). Parental Migration and Early Childhood Development in Rural China. Demography.

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Sasmita Poudel Adhikari, Sha Meng, Yu-Ju Wu, Yu-Ping Mao, Rui-Xue Ye, Qing-Zhi Wang, Chang Sun, Sean Sylvia, Scott Rozelle, Hein Raat, Huan Zhou (2020). Epidemiology, Causes, Clinical Manifestation and Diagnosis, Prevention and Control of Coronavirus Disease (COVID-19) during the Early Outbreak Period: A Scoping Review. Infectious Diseases of Poverty.

Renfu Luo, Grant Miller, Scott Rozelle, Sean Sylvia, Marcos Vera-Hernández (2020). Can Bureaucrats Really Be Paid Like Ceos? Substitution Between Incentives and Resources Among School Administrators in China. Journal of the European Economic Association.

Yunwei Chen, Sean Y. Sylvia, Paiou Wu, Hongmei Yi (2020). Explaining the Evolving Demand for Healthcare in Rural China 2011-2018: A Non-Linear Decomposition Approach. Working Paper.

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M. Kumi Smith, Richie H. Xu, Shanda L. Hunt, Chongyi Wei, Joseph D. Tucker, Weiming Tang, Danyang Luo, Hao Xue, Cheng Wang, Ligang Yang, Bin Yang, Li Li, Benny L. Joyner, Sean Y. Sylvia (2020). Combating HIV Stigma in Low- and Middle-Income Healthcare Settings: A Scoping Review. Journal of the International AIDS Society.

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Ruilie Cai, Ji Tang, Chenhui Deng, Guofan Lv, Xiaohe Xu, Sean Sylvia, Jay Pan (2019). Violence against Health Care Workers in China, 2013– 2016: Evidence from the National Judgment Documents. Human Resources for Health.

Renfu Luo, Dorien Emmers, Nele Warrinnier, Scott Rozelle, Sean Sylvia (2019). Using Community Health Workers to Deliver a Scalable Integrated Parenting Program in Rural China: A Cluster-Randomized Controlled Trial. Social Science & Medicine.

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Dong Roman Xu, Mengyao Hu, Wenjun He, Jing Liao, Yiyuan Cai, Sean Sylvia, Kara Hanson, Yaolong Chen, Jay Pan, Zhongliang Zhou, Nan Zhang, Chengxiang Tang, Xiaohui Wang, Scott Rozelle, Hua He, Hong Wang, Gary Chan, Edmundo Roberto Melipillán, Wei Zhou, Wenjie Gong (2019). Assessing the Quality of Primary Healthcare in Seven Chinese Provinces with Unannounced Standardised Patients: Protocol of a Cross-Sectional Survey. BMJ Open.

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Prashant Loyalka, Sean Sylvia, Chengfang Liu, James Chu, Yaojiang Shi (2019). Pay by Design: Teacher Performance Pay Design and the Distribution of Student Achievement. Journal of Labor Economics.

Hao Xue, Yaojiang Shi, Lei Huang, Hongmei Yi, Huan Zhou, Chengchao Zhou, Sarah Kotb, Joseph D. Tucker, Sean Y. Sylvia (2019). Diagnostic Ability and Inappropriate Antibiotic Prescriptions: A Quasi-Experimental Study of Primary Care Providers in Rural China. Journal of Antimicrobial Chemotherapy.

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Hao Xue, Jennifer Hager, Qi An, Kai Liu, Jing Zhang, Emma Auden, Bingyan Yang, Jie Yang, Hongyan Liu, Jingchun Nie, Aiqin Wang, Chengchao Zhou, Yaojiang Shi, Sean Sylvia (2018). The Quality of Tuberculosis Care in Urban Migrant Clinics in China. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health.

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Jingchun Nie, Xiaopeng Pang, Lei Wang, Scott Rozelle, Sean Sylvia (2018). Seeing Is Believing: Experimental Evidence on the Impact of Eyeglasses on Academic Performance, Aspirations, and Dropout among Junior High School Students in Rural China. Economic Development and Cultural Change.

Jing Liao, Yaolong Chen, Yiyuan Cai, Nan Zhan, Sean Sylvia, Kara Hanson, Hong Wang, Judith N. Wasserheit, Wenjie Gong, Zhongliang Zhou, Jay Pan, Xiaohui Wang, Chengxiang Tang, Wei Zhou, Dong Xu (2018). Using Smartphone-Based Virtual Patients to Assess the Quality of Primary Healthcare in Rural China: Protocol for a Prospective Multicentre Study. BMJ Open.

Qiufeng Gao, Yaojiang Shi, Di Mo, Jingchun Nie, Meredith Yang, Scott Rozelle, Sean Sylvia (2018). Medical Waste Management in Three Areas of Rural China. PLOS ONE.

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Wang Lei, Mengjie Li, Siqi Zhang, Yonglei Sun, Sean Sylvia, Enyan Yang, Guangrong Ma, Linxiu Zhang, Di Mo, Scott Rozelle (2018). Contract Teachers and Student Achievement in Rural China: Evidence from Class Fixed Effects. Australian Journal of Agricultural and Resource Economics.

Sean Sylvia, Hao Xue, Chengchao Zhou, Yaojiang Shi, Hongmei Yi, Huan Zhou, Scott Rozelle, Madhukar Pai, Jishnu Das (2017). Tuberculosis Detection and the Challenges of Integrated Care in Rural China: A Cross-Sectional Standardized Patient Study. PLOS Medicine.

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Renfu Luo, Ai Yue, Huan Zhou, Yaojiang Shi, Linxiu Zhang, Reynaldo Martorell, Alexis Medina, Scott Rozelle, Sean Sylvia (2017). The Effect of a Micronutrient Powder Home Fortification Program on Anemia and Cognitive Outcomes among Young Children in Rural China: A Cluster Randomized Trial. BMC Public Health.

Chengfang Liu, Louise Lu, Linxiu Zhang, Renfu Luo, Sean Sylvia, Alexis Medina, Scott Rozelle, Darvin Scott Smith, Yingdan Chen, Tingjun Zhu (2017). Effect of Deworming on Indices of Health, Cognition, and Education Among Schoolchildren in Rural China: A Cluster-Randomized Controlled Trial. The American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene.

Huan Zhou, Shuai Sun, Renfu Luo, Sean Sylvia, Ai Yue, Yaojiang Shi, Linxiu Zhang, Alexis Medina, Scott Rozelle (2016). Impact of Text Message Reminders on Caregivers' Adherence to a Home Fortification Program Against Child Anemia in Rural Western China: A Cluster-Randomized Controlled Trial. American Journal of Public Health.

Chengchao Zhou, Sean Sylvia, Linxiu Zhang, Renfu Luo, Hongmei Yi, Chengfang Liu, Yaojiang Shi, Prashant Loyalka, James Chu, Alexis Medina, Scott Rozelle (2015). China's Left-Behind Children: Impact Of Parental Migration On Health, Nutrition, And Educational Outcomes. Health Affairs.

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Renfu Luo, Yaojiang Shi, Huan Zhou, Ai Yue, Linxiu Zhang, Sean Sylvia, Alexis Medina, Scott Rozelle (2015). Micronutrient Deficiencies and Developmental Delays among Infants: Evidence from a Cross-Sectional Survey in Rural China. BMJ Open.

Sean Sylvia, Yaojiang Shi, Hao Xue, Xin Tian, Huan Wang, Qingmei Liu, Alexis Medina, Scott Rozelle (2015). Survey Using Incognito Standardized Patients Shows Poor Quality Care in China's Rural Clinics. Health Policy and Planning.

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Liying Li, Renfu Luo, Sean Sylvia, Alexis Medina, Scott Rozelle (2015). The Prevalence of Anemia in Central and Eastern China: Evidence from the China Health and Nutrition Survey. Southeast Asian Journal of Tropical Medicine and Public Health; Bangkok.

Yunfan Yang, Huan Wang, Linxiu Zhang, Sean Sylvia, Renfu Luo, Yaojiang Shi, Wei Wang, Scott Rozelle (2015). The Han-Minority Achievement Gap, Language, and Returns to Schools in Rural China. Economic Development and Cultural Change.

Renfu Luo, Yaojiang Shi, Huan Zhou, Ai Yue, Linxiu Zhang, Sean Sylvia, Alexis Medina, Scott Rozelle (2014). Anemia and Feeding Practices among Infants in Rural Shaanxi Province in China. Nutrients.

Sean Sylvia, Renfu Luo, Linxiu Zhang, Yaojiang Shi, Alexis Medina, Scott Rozelle (2013). Do You Get What You Pay for with School-Based Health Programs? Evidence from a Child Nutrition Experiment in Rural China. Economics of Education Review.

Grant Miller, Renfu Luo, Linxiu Zhang, Sean Sylvia, Yaojiang Shi, Patricia Foo, Qiran Zhao, Reynaldo Martorell, Alexis Medina, Scott Rozelle (2012). Effectiveness of Provider Incentives for Anaemia Reduction in Rural China: A Cluster Randomised Trial. BMJ : British Medical Journal.