migrant access to local health and education system a large cohort of migrant children are left-behind in rural villages and … growing up without parental care. This paper examines how parental migration affects children's health and education outcomes …. Using the Rural-Urban Migration Survey in China (RUMiC) data we are able to measure the share of children's lifetime during …

, suggesting that father absence does not play a major role in determining children's educational outcomes. Instead, these results …

children's performance only through parents. We find that one additional score point in the origin country performance in math …In this study, we provide evidence that parents' beliefs about the value of math, in terms of successful employment …, have a positive impact on children's math scores. This result is robust to the reverse causality issue that characterizes …

Many children worldwide are left behind by parents who are migrating for work. While previous literature has studied … the effect of parental migration on children's educational outcomes and cognitive achievements, this study focuses on how … parental migration affects children's non-cognitive development. We use longitudinal data of children in rural China and adopt …

effect of return migrant parents on once-left-behind children's performance. This empirical strategy allows us to avoid the … parents may improve children's school performance. One is that children spend more time studying following migrant parents …' return. The other is that return migrant parents spend more on their children's education. We also find evidence suggesting …