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 …

children's nutritional status in migrant households. Measures of social disadvantage are based on China's hukou system of … hukou status is negatively associated with children's weight-for-age Z-scores, even after controlling for household … characteristics, and girl children exhibit poorer nutritional status than boys. Results from a quantile decomposition procedure …

increase of overweight and obese children and considers the higher female employment participation in China. We analyze how … children. However, our results are well consistent with some recent evidence in Europe (Greve, 2011; Gwozdz et al., 2013 … collective societies. Furthermore, it broadens the dominant front of adolescents and adults by analyzing children as well. Note …

of 3- to 18-year-old children and adolescents in China. Even after a rich set of covariates and unobserved individual …

of 3- to 18-year-old children and adolescents in China. Even after a rich set of covariates and unobserved individual …