could help explain why the majority of migrants choose to leave their children behind. This paper proposes a theoretical … their children to the city. The analysis instruments the endogenous school fees with unexpected shocks to the city's public … workers from bringing their children, especially their daughters; reduce the number of children they bring; and increase …

could help explain why the majority of migrants choose to leave their children behind. This paper proposes a theoretical … their children to the city. The analysis instruments the endogenous school fees with unexpected shocks to the city's public … workers from bringing their children, especially their daughters; reduce the number of children they bring; and increase …

I present a model of parental decision-making with endogenous migration to study the human capital of children in … migrant families, focusing on the case of rural China. I derive two main results related to (i) the effect of parental … migration on children's human capital, and (ii) the effects of government policies that increase services for children. First, I …

modern China. Estimates of the wage differential between self-employment and paid-employment obtained through a three …-stage methodology using the 2002 China Household Income Project (CHIP), reveal that rural migrants become self-employed to avoid low …

This paper introduces China’s Urban-Rural Resident Medical Insurance (URRMI) Reform to examine whether health insurance … integration has an impact on labor migration, using data from the China Labor-force Dynamics Survey (CLDS). I find that the … workplaces. The positive effects are significant among certain cohorts: the young workers and the old, workers in Eastern China …

Using unique matched employer-employee data from China, we discover that migrant workers in the manufacturing industry …

examines how the temporary migration of parents for work affects the health outcomes of children left behind using the …