Many children worldwide are left behind by parents who are migrating for work. While previous literature has studied … the effect of parental migration on children's educational outcomes and cognitive achievements, this study focuses on how … parental migration affects children's non-cognitive development. We use longitudinal data of children in rural China and adopt …

parental health. Results show that elderly parents receive lower time contributions from all of their children when one child … migration on elderly parents. After discussing the identification issues involved in estimation, I review the literature on the … effects of migration on the education and health of non-migrant children as well as the labor supply of non-migrant spouses …

that migrants and non-migrants are likely to differ in unobservable ways that also affect children's educational outcomes …Estimation of the causal effect of parental migration on children's educational attainment is complicated by the fact … have no effect on the educational outcomes of children who are at least 20 because they have already completed their …

, suggesting that father absence does not play a major role in determining children's educational outcomes. Instead, these results …

children's performance only through parents. We find that one additional score point in the origin country performance in math …In this study, we provide evidence that parents' beliefs about the value of math, in terms of successful employment …, have a positive impact on children's math scores. This result is robust to the reverse causality issue that characterizes …

effect of return migrant parents on once-left-behind children's performance. This empirical strategy allows us to avoid the … parents may improve children's school performance. One is that children spend more time studying following migrant parents …' return. The other is that return migrant parents spend more on their children's education. We also find evidence suggesting …

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

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

We study the impact of adult children's internal migration on the health and subjective well-being of elderly parents … left behind, distinguishing between the gender of the migrant children. To overcome migration endogeneity, we exploit novel … and exogenous variation in children's astrological characteristics and apply instrumental variables methods. We find a …