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 … instrumental variables to account for migration selection. Our results show that parental migration has no significant impact on …

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 …

associated with the nutritional status of children in rural and urban China. Results from instrumental variables regressions show … 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 …

children raises the possibility that China's rural elderly will receive less support in the forms of both income and in …-kind instrumental care. Although descriptive evidence on net financial transfers suggests that the elderly with migrant children will … receive similar levels of financial transfers as those without migrant children, the predicted variance associated with these …