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School Performance of Chinese Internal Migrants’ Children

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  • Yiwen Chen

    (CREA, Université du Luxembourg)

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This paper examines whether the decision of migrant parents on children’s migration affect their school performance. Empirical evidence based on the 2009 wave of the Rural-Urban Migration Survey in China (RUMiC) data suggests that migrant children outperform left-behind children, especially for Chinese test scores. Further analysis interacting children’s migration status with their age shows that, in terms of school performance, younger children having migrated with parents to the city have advantage over their leftbehind counterparts in rural hometown, but this gap disappears with the age of children. Among children in junior high school, school performance of left-behind children are better than that of migrant children.

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  • Yiwen Chen, 2018. "School Performance of Chinese Internal Migrants’ Children," DEM Discussion Paper Series 18-02, Department of Economics at the University of Luxembourg.
    • Handle: RePEc:luc:wpaper:18-02
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    Chinese internal migrant workers; left-behind children; migrant children; school performance;
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