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Parental Migration Decisions and Child Health Outcomes: Evidence from China☆

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  • Carl Lin
  • Yana van der Meulen Rodgers

Abstract

This study uses migrant household survey data from 2008 to 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-behind children relative to children who migrate with their parents. Additional results from a standard Blinder–Oaxaca decomposition, a quantile decomposition, and a counterfactual distribution analysis all confirm that children who are left behind in rural villages – usually because of the oppressivehukousystem – have poorer nutritional status than children who migrate with their parents, and the gaps are biggest at lower portions of the distribution.

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  • Carl Lin & Yana van der Meulen Rodgers, 2019. "Parental Migration Decisions and Child Health Outcomes: Evidence from China☆," Research in Labor Economics, in: Health and Labor Markets, volume 47, pages 281-310, Emerald Group Publishing Limited.
    • Handle: RePEc:eme:rleczz:s0147-912120190000047010
    DOI: 10.1108/S0147-912120190000047010
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    Keywords

    Migration; China; children; health; nutrition; hukou; I10; J61;
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    JEL classification:

    • I10 - Health, Education, and Welfare - - Health - - - General
    • J61 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Mobility, Unemployment, Vacancies, and Immigrant Workers - - - Geographic Labor Mobility; Immigrant Workers

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