household. Using data from the China Health and Nutrition Surveyfrom 1989 to 2006, we apply a fixed-effects model to control for …

This paper examines how left-behind children influence return migration in China. We first present a simple … intentions to return), among which are parents' concerns about the well-being of their left-behind children. We then propose two … role of left-behind children as a significant motive for return. First, left-behind children are found to draw their …

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 assesses causal effects of formal microcredit on children's educational outcomes by using household panel … data (2000 and 2004) in a poor province of northwest rural China. The unobservables between borrowers and non-borrowers are … microcredit on children's schooling years (captured by late entry, failed grades and suspended schooling from time to time) in …

Many believe that increasing the quantity of children will lead to a decrease in their quality. This paper exploits … plausibly exogenous changes in family size caused by relaxations in China's One Child Policy to estimate the causal effect of … significantly increased school enrollment of first-born children by approximately 16 percentage-points. The effect is larger for …

of family background on children's education in villages, with a focus on the role of nonfarm occupations. The analysis … uses data from rural China that cover three generations, and are not subject to coresident sample selection. Evidence from … across farm-nonfarm occupations. Having nonfarm parents, in general, has positive effects, but children of low educated non …