and public spheres of work in post-reform rural, minority-concentrated China. We focus on the role that children play in … local economic conditions. Children generally decrease women's willingness to work away from/outside the home and increase … men's willingness to do so. When we focus specifically on the effects of pre-school children, our results suggest it is …

growing up without parental care. This paper examines how parental migration affects children's health and education outcomes …. Using the Rural-Urban Migration Survey in China (RUMiC) data we are able to measure the share of children's lifetime during … home village when they were young we find a sizable adverse impact of exposure to parental migration on children's health …

a substantial adverse effect of children's exposure to parental migration on height-for-age Z-scores of left …This study uses migrant household survey data from 2008 and 2009 to examine how parental migration decisions are … associated with the nutritional status of children in rural and urban China. Results from instrumental variables regressions show …

This article investigates the long-term effects of parental migration abroad on the schooling of children left behind … in Albania. Although parents' migration usually benefits children economically, the lack of parental care may cause … relational and psychological problems that may affect children's welfare in the long-term. The phenomenon of children left behind …

effects of migration on the education and health of non-migrant children as well as the labor supply of non-migrant spouses …This paper addresses the effects of migration on families left behind and offers new evidence on the impact of … migration on elderly parents. After discussing the identification issues involved in estimation, I review the literature on the …