In the past 15 years around 160 million Chinese rural workers migrated to cities to work. Because of restrictions on … migrant access to local health and education system a large cohort of migrant children are left-behind in rural villages and … growing up without parental care. This paper examines how parental migration affects children's health and education outcomes …

Overall, children in Germany live in households with below average incomes; therefore social policies that address the … vulnerable position of Germany?s children are necessary. These policies should cover targeted financial transfers as well as … improvements in day care provision for children. With respect to selected non-monetary as well as monetary indicators our empirical …

-born children of immigrants were asked to take Woodcock-Johnson achievement test. In both rounds, prior to the administration of … tests, children of Hispanic origin were randomly assigned to take the tests either in Spanish or in English. Therefore, we … suggest that in reading tests, U.S. born children of Hispanic immigrants perform better, when they are assigned to take the …

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 …

of Canadians is offered, as are estimates of the degree of generational mobility among the children of immigrants …. Persistence in the years of schooling across the generations is rather weak between immigrants and their Canadian born children … second generation children, and if anything negatively correlated. Finally we find that the intergenerational transmission of …

children of immigrants in the US. An immigrant concentration-weighted accessibility parameter is included to assess the spatial … concentration may continue to be more important for the children of immigrants than more simply-framed economic conditions. Further …

portrait of the Canadian population is offered as are estimates of the degree of generational mobility among the children of … mobility and find that these are present and associated with father's education. -- immigrants ; children ; generational …

We identify the ages that constitute critical periods in children's development towards their adult health status. For …

children from these marriages. Although second-generation immigrants with one native parent generally have lower dropout rates … unobservable background characteristics. That is, immigrants that marry natives have children that are more likely to dropout of …

data. While native children face yearly poverty risks of less than 10 percent in all three countries and for all years … investigated the increasing proportion of immigrant children with an origin in middle and low income countries have poverty risks … that varies from 38 and up to as much as 58 percent. At the end of the observation period one third of the poor children in …