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 …

future generations is weakened, as children are left orphaned and surviving adults are correspondingly burdened. As a … consequence, per capita income decreases and communities can less afford to raise and educate children as they did before the … outbreak of the disease. The underlying theoretical model, in which it is assumed that parents raise and educate children for …