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Assessing the Effect of Mother's Migration on Childhood Mortality in the Informal Settlements of Nairobi
Konseiga, Adama - 2010
Between one and two million migrants reside in cramped conditions in Nairobi's slums without proper access to sanitation or affordable clean water. Children in such areas are exposed to enormous risks, health risks in particular. Using longitudinal data collected every four months during the...
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Parental Unemployment and Child Health in China
Pieters, Janneke - 2016
This paper studies the causal effect of maternal and paternal unemployment on child health in China, analyzing panel data for the period 1997-2004, when the country underwent economic reforms leading to massive layoffs. We find that paternal unemployment reduces child health, while maternal...
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Measuring the Income-Distance Tradeoff for Rural-Urban Migrants in China
Zhang, Junfu - 2014
Rural-urban migrants in China appear to prefer nearby destination cities. To gain a better understanding of this phenomenon, we build a simple model in which migrants from rural areas choose among potential destination cities to maximize utility. The distance between a migrant's home village and...
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Migration Externalities in Chinese Cities
Combes, Pierre-Philippe - 2015
We analyse the impact of internal migration in China on natives' labour market outcomes. We find evidence of a large positive correlation of the city share of migrants with natives' wages. Using different sets of control variables and instruments suggests that the effect is causal. The large...
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Village Political Economy, Land Tenure Insecurity, and the Rural to Urban Migration Decision : Evidence from China
Giles, John - 2014
This paper investigates the impact of land tenure insecurity on the migration decisions of China's rural residents. A simple model first frames the relationship among these variables and the probability that a reallocation of land will occur in the following year. After first demonstrating that...
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The Impact of Non-Cognitive Skills and Risk Preferences on Rural-to-Urban Migration : Evidence from Ukraine
Ayhan, Sinem - 2017
This paper provides evidence on the impacts of non-cognitive skills and attitudes towards risk on the decision to migrate from rural to urban areas. Our analysis is based on a unique four-wave panel of Ukrainian Longitudinal Monitoring Survey for the period between 2003 and 2012. Adopting the...
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City Size, Family Migration, and Gender Wage Gap : Evidence from Rural-Urban Migrants in China
Xing, Chunbing; Yuan, Xiaoyan; Zhang, Junfu - 2022
Finding suitable employment in a city is more challenging for married than unmarried migrants. This paper provides empirical evidence that the denser and more diversified labor markets in large cities help alleviate the colocation problem of married couples. Using data from China, we show that...
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Social Networks and Mental Health Problems : Evidence from Rural-to-Urban Migrants in China
Meng, Xin - 2017
Over the past two decades, more than 160 million rural residents have migrated to cities in China. They are usually separated from their rural families and work in an unfamiliar, and sometimes hostile, city environment. This paper investigates to what extent city social networks alleviate mental...
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The Impact of Rural-Urban Migration on the Health of the Left-Behind Parents
Ao, Xiang - 2015
parents left behind in the rural area. The impact of migration of the adult children on the health of their left …-behind parents is ambiguous. On the one hand, the additional income from the children's jobs can allow their parents to afford better … care of their parents. This paper uses the Rural Urban Migration in China data to empirically investigate the effect of …
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Elder Parent Health and the Migration Decision of Adult Children : Evidence from Rural China
Giles, John - 2006
Recent research has shown that participation in migrant labor markets has led to substantial increases in income for families in rural China. This paper asks how participation is affected by elder parent health. We find that younger adults are less likely to work as migrants when a parent is...
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