Gao, Xuwen; Liang, Wenquan; Mobarak, Ahmed Mushfiq; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
About 11% of the Chinese population are rural-urban migrants with a rural hukou that severely restricts their children …'s access to urban schools. As a result, 69 million children are left behind in rural areas. We use two regression … are more likely to separate from children to take advantage of new opportunities in cities. Those workers earn much more …