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and public spheres of work in post-reform rural, minority-concentrated China. We focus on the role that children play in … local economic conditions. Children generally decrease women's willingness to work away from/outside the home and increase … men's willingness to do so. When we focus specifically on the effects of pre-school children, our results suggest it is …
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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 … instrumental variables to account for migration selection. Our results show that parental migration has no significant impact on …
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growing up without parental care. This paper examines how parental migration affects children's health and education outcomes …. Using the Rural-Urban Migration Survey in China (RUMiC) data we are able to measure the share of children's lifetime during … home village when they were young we find a sizable adverse impact of exposure to parental migration on children's health …
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a substantial adverse effect of children's exposure to parental migration on height-for-age Z-scores of left …This study uses migrant household survey data from 2008 and 2009 to examine how parental migration decisions are … associated with the nutritional status of children in rural and urban China. Results from instrumental variables regressions show …
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children's nutritional status in migrant households. Measures of social disadvantage are based on China's hukou system of … household registration (designed to limit domestic migration flows by denying urban public services to migrants with rural … hukou status is negatively associated with children's weight-for-age Z-scores, even after controlling for household …
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We document the educational integration of immigrant children with a focus on the link between family size and … associated with higher educational outcomes for immigrant children, possibly through a quantity-quality trade-off. Third, we show …
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More unaccompanied refugee children arrive to and get a residence permit in Sweden than in any other country in Europe …. The number of children who arrives is increasing fast. The Swedish experiences are therefore of great interest also for … the same countries but who have arrived together with their parents. After controlling for demographic and migration …
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While childhood obesity has become a significant public health concern over the last few decades, knowledge concerning the origins of or persistence in childhood anthropometric measures is incomplete. Here, we utilize several nonparametric measures of mobility to assess the evolution of weight,...
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migration of children has a significant positive impact on child school attendance rates while that of adults has a … significantly negative effect, and that remittances have no influence. These findings suggest that migration of children is indeed … tasks might reduce the rate of school attendance. However, the migration of neither children nor adults seem to increase the …
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the most children from this group. Some of them emigrate after a period of time in Sweden, but the vast majority stay …. Most of the arriving children are teenage boys who have not yet turned 18. However, the largest increase over the latest …
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