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 …

We study the relationship between migration and childrenś education in Tajikistan - one of the poorest and most … effect. Migration of non-parent family members (such as siblings) is particularly detrimental to school attendance …, especially among older children and children from less educated households. This supports a conjecture that emigration in …

of outcomes for original resident adults and children. Gentrification modestly increases out-migration, though movers are … not made observably worse off and neighborhood change is driven primarily by changes to in-migration. At the same time …, many original resident adults stay and benefit from declining poverty exposure and rising house values. Children benefit …

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 …

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 …