Replication Data for: Does Housing Prices really Reduce Physical health?: Empirical Evidence from Chinese General Social Survey

The empirical datasets in this paper were obtained from two databases, Chinese General Social Survey (CGSS) and the China premium database of CEIC. The datasets of CGSS are initiated by the National Survey Research Center of Renmin University of China, and has been implemented every one to two years since 2003, with the most recent year being 2015. The empirical study in this paper will select survey data for three years, 2012, 2013, and 2015, which capture the period of rapid house price increase in China. Meanwhile, the datasets of CGSS are high-quality cross-sectional data, which not only contain rich information on demographics, income (individual and household), housing and marriage perceptions, but also cover rich information on individual health status, such as self-rated physical health, height and weight (used to calculate BMI), which is also of interest in our paper. In addition, it includes subjective social status, mental health status, and health-related behaviors for the mechanistic analysis in this paper.