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 …-effects models with panel data estimation techniques, we find evidence that grandparents appear to have an adverse effect on the test …

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

China. In my model, the migrant parent decides whether to bring a child to cities or leave him behind. The main result is …