We study the impact of adult children's internal migration on the health and subjective well-being of elderly parents … positive effect of the migration of daughters on parents' health and life satisfaction, but no such beneficial effects when … left behind, distinguishing between the gender of the migrant children. To overcome migration endogeneity, we exploit novel …

We study the impact of adult children's internal migration on the health and subjective well-being of elderly parents … positive effect of the migration of daughters on parents' health and life satisfaction, but no such beneficial effects when … left behind, distinguishing between the gender of the migrant children. To overcome migration endogeneity, we exploit novel …

with health, and satisfaction with children. Our results suggest that the increase in SWB is achieved through better health …In many societies, parents prefer sons over daughters, but the well-being effects of child gender, especially in later … life, are less studied. Using the latest two waves of the China Health and Retirement Longitudinal Study (CHARLS), this …

the host community's children in Nigeria. Our identification strategy characterizes affected children based on distance … heterogeneities between the household and the closest IDP camp, as well as the child's birth year. We find that children residing … professional employment and a significant increase in vaccination intake for affected children. …

expectations and norms. Parental gender stereotypes are shown to strongly decrease student wellbeing in China. Students are …

expectations and norms. Using standard econometric techniques, parental gender stereotypes are shown to strongly decrease student … wellbeing in China. Students are strongly more depressed, feeling blue, unhappy, not enjoying life and sad while parental … education does not matter. The relationships though dealing with a gender-specific issue do not exhibit gender …

-term physical and mental health and subjective well-being. There is weak, but not robust, evidence for increased satisfaction with … physical and mental health and subjective well-being. The reform extended paid leave for first-time mothers by six months to a …

, and the relative chances of girls surviving after birth. We find a moderation of son-biased fertility, erosion of gender …

, migration enhances subjective well-being and satisfaction with freedom. The results are robust to sensitivity checks …The extant literature has focused on migration's consequences for the receiving countries. In this paper, we ask a … different but important question: how much do migrants gain from moving to another country? Using Gallup World Poll data and a …

paper examines the causal effects of parents' migration on their children left home in Romania, a country where increasingly …Many children grow up with parents working abroad. Economists are interested in the achievement and well-being of these … "home alone" children to better understand the positive and negative aspects of migration in the sending countries. This …