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 …

examines how the temporary migration of parents for work affects the health outcomes of children left behind using the …Economic research on labor migration in the developing world has traditionally focused on the role played by the … microdata, more attention has been paid to the effects of migration on the lives of family members left behind. This paper …

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 …

paper examines how the temporary migration of parents for the sole purpose of work affects the health outcomes of children …Economic research on labour migration in the developing world has traditionally focused on the role played by the … rich microdata, more attention has been paid to the effects of migration on the lives of family members left behind. This …

children's nutritional status in migrant households. Measures of social disadvantage are based on China's hukou system of … household registration (designed to limit domestic migration flows by denying urban public services to migrants with rural … hukou status is negatively associated with children's weight-for-age Z-scores, even after controlling for household …

.For the case of forced migration, the results show that asylum-seeking children who arrived in Sweden as a consequence of the … polio and the vaccine against it, (2) experiencing forced migration, studied through the case of Yugoslavian refugees in … Sweden, and (3) losing a parent during the childhood years.Since they alter the environment in which children develop, these …