could help explain why the majority of them choose to leave their children behind. We identified the causal impacts of … higher fees deter migrant workers from bringing their children with them, especially their daughters, reduce the number of … children they bring, and increase educational remittances to rural areas for the children left behind. Increases in school fees …

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 …

Nearly a quarter of all children under the age of two in China are left behind in the countryside as parents migrate to … urban areas for work. We use a longitudinal survey following young children and their caregivers from 6 to 30 months of age … of labor from rural to urban areas has been a key driver of China's prosperity in recent decades, it may entail a …

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 …

This paper relies on recent proprietary data from China's poor rural minority areas to examine the importance of credit … constraints on rural-urban labor migration. Specifically, a liquidity shock via China's minimum living security allowance (MLSA …