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Parental migration, investment in children, and children's non-cognitive development : evidence from rural China

Jiang, Hanchen; Yang, Xi - 2019

Many children worldwide are left behind by parents who are migrating for work. While previous literature has studied the effect of parental migration on children's educational outcomes and cognitive achievements, this study focuses on how parental migration affects children's non-cognitive...

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Arrival of young talents : the send-down movement and rural education in China

Chen, Yi; Fan, Ziying; Gu, Xiaomin; Zhou, Li-An - 2018 - This draft: October 2018

This paper studies human-capital spillovers and its persistence by exploiting a unique event in modern Chinahe send-down movement. From 1962 to 1979, the Chinese central government mandated the temporary resettlement of roughly 18 million urban youths to rural areas across the country. The...

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Are grandparents a good substitute for parents as the primary caregiver? : the impact of grandparents on children's academic performance

Wang, Sophie Xuefei; Bansak, Cynthia - 2022

This study examines the impacts of caregiving by grandparents on children's academic performance in China, using data from the China Family Panel Studies (CFPS 2010 and 2014). Applying pooled OLS, instrumental variables and fixed-effects models with panel data estimation techniques, we find...

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Women's education and fertility in China

Zhang, Zheyuan; Zhao, Zhong - 2023

Using data from the China Family Panel Studies, this paper exploits the Compulsory Education Law of China implemented in the 1980s to empirically examine the causal impact of women's education on fertility in rural China by difference-in-differences methods. The results show that an additional...

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Do migrant students affect local students' academic achievements in urban China?

Wang, Haining; Cheng, Zhiming; Smyth, Russell - 2017

middle schools in urban China. The identification of peer effects relies on idiosyncratic variation in the proportion of … migrant students across classes within schools. We find that the proportion of migrant students in each class has a small, and … enrolled in small classes and local students enrolled in lower-ranked schools benefit most in terms of test scores from having …

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Adverse childhood circumstances and cognitive function in middle- aged and older Chinese adults : lower level or faster decline?

Lin, Zhuoer; Chen, Xi - 2021

We examine the long-term relationship between childhood circumstances and cognitive aging. In particular, we differentiate the level of cognitive deficit from the rate of cognitive decline. Applying a linear mixed-effect model to three waves of China Health and Retirement Longitudinal Surveys...

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The unintended consequences of relaxing birth quotas : theory and evidence

Jin, Zhangfeng; Pan, Shiyuan; Zheng, Zhijie - 2021

This study examines the consequences of relaxing birth quotas by exploiting an exogenous two-child policy adopted by local Chinese governments on different dates. Using China's 2015 population census combined with a difference-in-differences framework, we find that the adoption of a two-child...

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Childhood circumstances and health inequality in old age : comparative evidence from China and the United States

Chen, Xi; Yan, Binjian; Gill, Thomas M. - 2020

This paper estimates the extent to which childhood circumstances contribute to health inequality in old age and evaluates the importance of major domains of childhood circumstances to health inequalities in the USA and China. We link two waves of the China Health and Retirement Longitudinal...

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Prenatal sunshine exposure and birth outcomes in China

Zhang, Xin; Wang, Yixuan; Chen, Xi; Zhang, Xun - 2020

This paper is one of the first to examine the associations between prenatal sunshine exposure and birth outcomes, specifically the incidence of low birth weight (LBW) and small for gestational age (SGA), based on a nationally representative birth record dataset in China. During the sample period...

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Son preference and human capital investment among China's rural-urban migrant households

Lin, Carl; Sun, Yan; Xing, Chunbing - 2018

number of rural primary schools, (2) migrant households with multiple children tend to take their sons to migrate more than …

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