hukou status is negatively associated with children's weight-for-age Z-scores, even after controlling for household … 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 …

investigate whether this causal hypothesis is true by estimating the impact of household income growth on children's nutritional … that growth in household expenditures accounts for only a small proportion of the improvements in children's nutritional … children under 5, fell from 50 percent in 1992-93 to 34 percent in 1997-98. Disparities exist, however, between different …

some of the worst maternal and child health (MCH) and nutrition outcome indicators, both globally as well as in the East … Asia and Pacific (EAP) region. This report presents results from a household, village, and facility survey on Maternal and … Child Health (MCH) and nutrition in mostly rural areas of six central and southern provinces of Lao People's Democratic …

This study uses migrant household survey data from 2008 and 2009 to examine how parental migration decisions are … 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 …

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 …