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 … the height of children, but it improves their weight. We provide suggestive evidence that the improvement in weight may be …

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 … a substantial adverse effect of children's exposure to parental migration on height-for-age Z-scores of left …

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 … the height of children, but it improves their weight. We provide suggestive evidence that the improvement in weight may be …

hukou status is negatively associated with children's weight-for-age Z-scores, even after controlling for household … 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 …

nutritional status and both longer-run household resources and short-run fluctuations in household resources. We evaluate six … measures of nutrition – gross energy intake, two dimensions of diet quality, body mass index (BMI), which is a measure of net … energy intake for adults, and for children, weight for height and stature. Our finding indicate a clear positive effect of …

and nutrient elasticities, which challenge the perception of household ability to smooth their nutrient stream during …

Numerous studies have evaluated the effect of nutrition early in life on health much later in life by comparing … provide exogenous variation in the provision of nutrition. However, living through a famine early in life does not necessarily … imply a lack of nutrition during that age interval, and vice versa, and in this sense the observed difference at most …

animal studies. We provide an external validation by analyzing the impact of the German famine of 1916-1918 on children and …