is absent for children of preschool age. We also find that (1) boys are more likely to migrate following the reduction in … the number of rural primary schools, (2) migrant households with multiple children tend to take their sons to migrate more … than they take their daughters, and (3) the fact that parents of boy students spend more on their children's education can …

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 …

Using unique matched employer-employee data from China, we discover that migrant workers in the manufacturing industry …

This paper examines how left-behind children influence return migration in China. We first present a simple … intentions to return), among which are parents' concerns about the well-being of their left-behind children. We then propose two … role of left-behind children as a significant motive for return. First, left-behind children are found to draw their …

Large scale rural-to-urban migration and China's household registration system have resulted in about 61 million … children being left-behind in rural villages when their parents migrate to the cities. This paper uses survey and experimental …

Under China's household registration (hukou) system, children with rural hukou do not have equal rights to access … education in urban areas. This paper investigates the causal effect of hukou status on children's education by exploiting an … exogenous change in hukou status induced by the hukou reform in 1998. Before the reform, children could only inherit their …

stemmed from Venezuelan households without children, suggesting that Venezuelan families were less able to cope with the …

Like most other developing countries, China experiences huge migration outflows from rural areas. Their most striking …. -- Migration ; land rights insecurity ; China ; semiparametric censored regression models …