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 …

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 …

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 …

Educational outcomes of children are highly dependent on household and school-level inputs. In poor countries … approach we find that the strongest migration-related response in private education expenditure are substantially lower … informal payments to public school teachers. This fact is at odds with a positive income effect due to migration. We argue that …

migration slightly increases caregivers' time spent on their children's education. We argue that our results are likely to be …Educational outcomes of children are highly dependent on household and school-level inputs. In poor countries … that the strongest migration-related response in private education expenditure are substantially lower informal payments to …

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 …