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Sons or Daughters? The Impact of Children's Migration on the Health and Well-Being of Parents Left Behind
Wahba, Jackline - 2019
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012868810
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Sons or daughters? : the impact of children's migration on the health and well-being of parents left behind
Wahba, Jackline; Wang, Chuhong - 2019
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012019306
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Gains from Green Cards : Immigrant Parents' Legal Status and Children's Scholastic Achievement
Pan, Ying - 2012
This paper investigates how unauthorized immigrants' illegal status affects their children's scholastic achievement in the U.S. The answer to this question calls attention to the intergenerational consequence of the U.S. immigration legislation. In order to estimate the intergenerational effect...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014221744
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Parental migration, investment in children, and children's non-cognitive development : evidence from rural China
Jiang, Hanchen; Yang, Xi - 2019
the effect of parental migration on children's educational outcomes and cognitive achievements, this study focuses on how …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012149247
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The Effect of Parental Migration on the Schooling of Children Left Behind in Rural Cambodia
Marchetta, Francesca; Sim, Sokcheng - 2020
Growing rural-to-urban and international migration flows have sparked concerns about investments in the education of left-behind children in Cambodia. We drew on a panel household-level survey conducted in rural villages in 2014 and 2017 to analyze the relationship between parental migration and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014094511
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Impact of Paternal Temporary Absence on Children Left Behind
Booth, Alison L. - 2009
Using the first two waves of the Vietnam Living Standards Survey, we investigate how a father's temporary absence affects children left behind in terms of their school attendance, household expenditures on education, and nonhousework labor supply in the 1990s. The estimating subsample is...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013155610
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Elder Parent Health and the Migration Decision of Adult Children : Evidence from Rural China
Giles, John - 2006
Recent research has shown that participation in migrant labor markets has led to substantial increases in income for families in rural China. This paper asks how participation is affected by elder parent health. We find that younger adults are less likely to work as migrants when a parent is...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012783694
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When the Cat's Away... The Effects of Spousal Migration on Investments on Children
Rizzica, Lucia - 2014
This paper analyzes the effects of parental migration on children left behind in order to understand whether and how the effects of migration on children depend on which of their parents migrates. I describe the migration of one of the spouses as a sequential game in which the spouse who...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013057792
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Maternal Employment, Migration, and Child Development
Liu, Haiyong; Mroz, Thomas A.; van der Klaauw, Wilbert - 2015
outcomes in the U.S. We investigate the interactions among and endogeneity of these inputs in the production of child outcomes … by specifying and estimating a behavioral model of parent's decisions that can affect these outcomes. We focus on two … development, modeled through a production function for child outcomes. The environment in which these decisions are made is …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014071400
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Migration, location and provision of support to old-age parents : the case of Romania
Zimmer, Zachary; Rada, Codrina; Stoica, Catalin Augustin - 2013
The combined demographic developments of population aging and high rates of migration of young adults are consequential for older parents who face a potential decline in support from adult children. These developments also impact the lives of migrant adults who face the challenge of providing...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009765677