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 …

children's nutritional status in migrant households. Measures of social disadvantage are based on China's hukou system of … household registration (designed to limit domestic migration flows by denying urban public services to migrants with rural … hukou status is negatively associated with children's weight-for-age Z-scores, even after controlling for household …

Using the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth 1997, this paper employs difference-in-difference propensity score … matching to examine whether the Supplementary Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) contributes to childhood obesity. We find no …

children's nutritional status in migrant households. Measures of social disadvantage are based on China's hukou system of … household registration (designed to limit domestic migration flows by denying urban public services to migrants with rural … hukou status is negatively associated with children's weight-for-age Z-scores, even after controlling for household …

parental migration is the lowest. Comparing the effect of single-father and single-mother households, we find that children …This study uses a large-scale dataset from Vietnam to analyze the impacts of parental absence due to migration, death …, or divorce on children's school enrollment, for children aged from 7 to 22. We find children from two-parent families …