children raises the possibility that China's rural elderly will receive less support in the forms of both income and in …-kind instrumental care. Although descriptive evidence on net financial transfers suggests that the elderly with migrant children will … receive similar levels of financial transfers as those without migrant children, the predicted variance associated with these …

The unprecedented large scale rural-to-urban migration in China has left many rural children living apart from their … parents. In this study, we examine the impact of parental migration on the nutritional status of young children in rural areas … the height of children, but it improves their weight. We provide suggestive evidence that the improvement in weight may be …

Nearly a quarter of all children under the age of two in China are left behind in the countryside as parents migrate to … urban areas for work. We use a longitudinal survey following young children and their caregivers from 6 to 30 months of age … of labor from rural to urban areas has been a key driver of China's prosperity in recent decades, it may entail a …

children's nutritional status in migrant households. Measures of social disadvantage are based on China's hukou system of … hukou status is negatively associated with children's weight-for-age Z-scores, even after controlling for household … characteristics, and girl children exhibit poorer nutritional status than boys. Results from a quantile decomposition procedure …

This paper exploits two unique features of China's history to study the effects of access to internal migration …

Over the past decades, China has witnessed a fast growth in urbanization promoted by massive flows of rural … representative data from the China Family Panel Studies in 2010, this study finds that urbanization is in general related to the …

This paper exploits two unique features of China's history to study the effects of access to internal migration …