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 … the height of children, but it improves their weight. We provide suggestive evidence that the improvement in weight may be …

This paper studies the impact of climate change on the nutritional status of very young children between the ages of 0 …-linear forms, we find that extreme heat and humidity in the month of birth exert significant negative effects on children …