and public spheres of work in post-reform rural, minority-concentrated China. We focus on the role that children play in … their parents' off-farm work decisions for three aggregated ethnic groups (majority Han, Muslim minorities, and non- Muslim … local economic conditions. Children generally decrease women's willingness to work away from/outside the home and increase …

. Using the Rural-Urban Migration Survey in China (RUMiC) data we are able to measure the share of children's lifetime during … 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 …

This study examines the impacts of caregiving by grandparents on children's academic performance in China, using data … from the China Family Panel Studies (CFPS 2010 and 2014). Applying pooled OLS, instrumental variables and fixed …

associated with the nutritional status of children in rural and urban China. Results from instrumental variables regressions show …-behind children relative to children who migrate with their parents. Additional results from a standard Blinder-Oaxaca decomposition … a substantial adverse effect of children's exposure to parental migration on height-for-age Z-scores of left …

the cohort and provincial variations of elderly parents exposed to the one-child policy in China. Using nationally … square and two-stage least square methods find that more children can enhance elderly parents’ subjective well-being (SWB …In this paper, we test the conventional wisdom in developing countries of 'more children, more happiness' by exploiting …

The paper estimates how parents adjust bride-prices and land divisions to compensate their sons for differences in … their schooling investments in rural China. The main estimate implies that when a son receives one yuan less in schooling …