This paper investigates the impact of land tenure insecurity on the migration decisions of China's rural residents. A …

could help explain why the majority of migrants choose to leave their children behind. This paper proposes a theoretical … their children to the city. The analysis instruments the endogenous school fees with unexpected shocks to the city's public … workers from bringing their children, especially their daughters; reduce the number of children they bring; and increase …

of family background on children?s education in villages, with a focus on the role of nonfarm occupations. The analysis … uses data from rural China that cover three generations, and are not subject to coresident sample selection. Evidence from … across farm-nonfarm occupations. Having nonfarm parents, in general, has positive effects, but children of low educated non …

Household expenditures for children-related goods may change when one of the parent migrates and do so differently … migration is accounted for using a set of instrumental variables derived from the model. Results show that when children are … of budget devoted to children remains unaffected because mothers compensate by giving up their own private consumption …

very young children are particularly vulnerable to shocks that lead to growth faltering, with substantial long-term health …

finds that children born into consanguineous marriages have lower test scores, lower height-for-age, and a higher likelihood …

Worldwide, 250 million children under five (43 percent) are not meeting their developmental potential because they lack … benefits for children's development, but the programs are often expensive and resource intensive. The objective of this study … parents and improve emergent literacy skills in children. The intervention was a modified dialogic reading training program …

in height-for-age of young children exposed during their first years of life, compared with a control group of households … children and adult cooks in treated households relative to control households. The results advance understanding of the health …