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The Impact of Removing Selective Migration Restrictions on Education : Evidence from China
Pan, Yao - 2018
An open question in migration research is how the removal of migration selectivity affects migrants’ education decisions. I analyze this question in the Chinese context, in which the household registration system imposes selective rural-urban migration restrictions. The identification derives...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014116227
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Moving towards a better future? : migration and children's health and education
Cockx, Lara - 2019
the variation in the outcomes of the children of migrants and the children of the migrants' siblings who stayed behind … and schooling are strongest for children who were exposed to the city environment during their early childhood. In …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012019703
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Does the rotten child spoil his companion? : spatial peer effects among children in rural India
Helmers, Christian; Patnam, Manasa - In: Quantitative economics : QE ; journal of the … 5 (2014) 1, pp. 67-121
This paper identifies the effect of neighborhood peer groups on childhood skill acquisition using observational data …
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Gains from Green Cards : Immigrant Parents' Legal Status and Children's Scholastic Achievement
Pan, Ying - 2012
This paper investigates how unauthorized immigrants' illegal status affects their children's scholastic achievement in the U.S. The answer to this question calls attention to the intergenerational consequence of the U.S. immigration legislation. In order to estimate the intergenerational effect...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014221744
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The Impact of Migration on Children Left Behind in Developing Countries : Outcomes Analysis and Data Requirements
Rossi, Andrea - 2014
In the research and reports on international migration, relatively little sustained academic scholarship addresses the impacts and implications of migration for youth and children whose families migrate or who themselves migrate to other developing countries. In the international debate on...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014142626
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Childhood migration and educational attainment : evidence from Indonesia
Schwank, Hanna M. - 2024 - This version: June 18, 2024
in the age of migration, I analyze the impact of destination quality on the educational outcomes of childhood internal … probabilities of completing primary and secondary schooling. Moreover, educational outcomes of migrants converge with those of … more from additional exposure. My findings suggest substantial heterogeneity of returns to childhood migration with respect …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014553034
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Parental migration, investment in children, and children's non-cognitive development : evidence from rural China
Jiang, Hanchen; Yang, Xi - 2019
the effect of parental migration on children's educational outcomes and cognitive achievements, this study focuses on how …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012149247
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The Effect of Parental Migration on the Schooling of Children Left Behind in Rural Cambodia
Marchetta, Francesca; Sim, Sokcheng - 2020
Growing rural-to-urban and international migration flows have sparked concerns about investments in the education of left-behind children in Cambodia. We drew on a panel household-level survey conducted in rural villages in 2014 and 2017 to analyze the relationship between parental migration and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014094511
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Access to public schools and the education of migrant children in China
Chen, Yuanyuan; Feng, Shuaizhang - 2012
A significant proportion of migrant children in China are not able to attend public schools for lack of local household registration (HuKou), and turn to privately-operated migrant schools. This paper examines the consequences of such a partially involuntary school choice, using survey data and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009621763
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Household migration and child educational attainment : the case of Uganda
Ferrone, Lucia; Giannelli, Gianna Claudia - 2015
In many Sub-Saharan African countries, a large number of people migrate internally or abroad because of demographic, economic and political factors. This pronounced mobility is likely to have consequences for child education, which is still a matter of concern in the region. We study this issue...
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