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 …

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 …

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 …

associated with the nutritional status of children in rural and urban China. Results from instrumental variables regressions show … 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 …

Large scale rural-to-urban migration and China's household registration system have resulted in about 61 million … children being left-behind in rural villages when their parents migrate to the cities. This paper uses survey and experimental … childhood as a result of migration is associated with increased criminality in adulthood. Control functions and sibling fixed …

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 …