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 …

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 …

children in China as well as how such disparities have changed during the period 1989–2006. The results show that on average …This paper analyzes urban–rural disparities of China's child health and nutritional status using the China Health and … Nutrition Survey data from 1989 to 2006. We investigate degrees of health and nutritional disparities between urban and rural …

This paper studies the impact of climate change on the nutritional status of very young children between the ages of 0 …-linear forms, we find that extreme heat and humidity in the month of birth exert significant negative effects on children … extent of pasture, rain-fed and irrigated lands, on the propensity of household out-migration, and on mother's age at first …

health, and cognitive outcomes of children. Our findings suggest that light-touch nutrition information alone, even when … studies the effect of a nutrition information intervention on household dietary behavior, hemoglobin levels, and cognitive … outcomes of children in rural India. Using experimental data and regression discontinuity design that exploits the exogenous …

in India. In a controlled study of 160 daycare centers serving over 4,000 children, we randomly assign individual workers … to receive either fixed bonuses or incentive payments based on the weight‐for‐age nutritional status of children in their … care, and also collect data from a control group receiving only their standard salary. Mothers of children in all three …

This paper examines how left-behind children influence return migration in China. We first present a simple … illustrative model based on Dustmann (2003) that incorporates economic and non-economic motives for migration duration (or … intentions to return), among which are parents' concerns about the well-being of their left-behind children. We then propose two …