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Does parental migration increase upward intergenerational mobility? : evidence from rural China
Feng, Qundi; He, Qinying - In: Economic modelling 115 (2022), pp. 1-11
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014228671
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Parental migration, investment in children, and children's non-cognitive development : evidence from rural China
Jiang, Hanchen; Yang, Xi - 2019
Many children worldwide are left behind by parents who are migrating for work. While previous literature has studied …
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
parents lag significantly behind in terms of years of completed schooling. We used the longitudinal dimension of the data to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014094511
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The impact of parents migration on the well-being of children left behind : initial evidence from Romania
Botezat, Alina; Pfeiffer, Friedhelm - 2014
Many children grow up with parents working abroad. Economists are interested in the achievement and well-being of these … paper examines the causal effects of parents' migration on their children left home in Romania, a country where increasingly …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010360290
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The impact of parents migration on the well-being of children left behind : initial evidence from Romania
Botezat, Alina; Pfeiffer, Friedhelm - 2014
Many children grow up with parents working abroad. Economists are interested in the achievement and well-being of these … paper examines the causal effects of parents' migration on their children left home in Romania, a country where increasingly …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010348742
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The Effects of Maternal Education Versus Cognitive Test Scores on Child Nutrition in Kenya
Bhargava, Alok; Fox-Kean, Melanie - 2004
This paper estimates dynamic random effects models for intakes by dietary energy, protein, calcium, iron, zinc, niacin, riboflavin, thiamin, and vitamins A, C, D, and E 100 of Kenyan school children (6-9 years) within a multivariate longitudinal framework. The explanatory variables were...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014074353
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Gender patterns in Vietnam's child mortality
Pham, Thong Le; Kooreman, Peter; Koning, Ruud Hans; … - 2011
We analyze child mortality in Vietnam focusing on gender aspects. Contrary to several other countries in the region, mortality rates for boys are substantially larger than for girls. A large rural-urban mortality difference exists, but much more so for boys than for girls. A higher education...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009307351
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How Distance to a Non-Residential Parent Relates to Child Outcomes
Rasmussen, Astrid Würtz - 2012
are evolving to encourage both parents to maintain contact with their children following parental separation … the distance between non-residential parents and their children to proxy for contact, and measuring educational … health outcomes. Failing to control for endogeneity biases the results in favor of more proximate parents. These findings …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013098448
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How distance to a non-residential parent relates to child outcomes
Rasmussen, Astrid Würtz; Stratton, Leslie S. - 2012
are evolving to encourage both parents to maintain contact with their children following parental separation … the distance between non-residential parents and their children to proxy for contact, and measuring educational … health outcomes. Failing to control for endogeneity biases the results in favor of more proximate parents. These findings …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009656608
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The twin instrument
Bhalotra, Sonia R.; Clarke, Damian - 2016
Twin births are often construed as a natural experiment in the social and natural sciences on the premise that the occurrence of twins is quasi-random. We present new population-level evidence that challenges this premise. Using individual data for more than 18 million births (more than 500,000...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011594542