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Effects of parents' migration on the education of children left behind in rural China

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This essay draws on an original cross‐sectional survey of 1,010 children and their guardians in highly migratory regions of Anhui and Jiangxi provinces located in China's interior. It uses propensity score matching, a technique that mitigates endogenity, to examine the impact of parental migration and post‐migration guardianship arrangements on the children's educational performance as measured by test scores for Chinese and mathematics. One core finding is that the educational performance of...

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Peer reviewed

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Institution:
University of Oxford
Oxford college:
St Antony's College
Role:
Author
Publisher:
Wiley Publisher's website
Journal:
Population and Development Review Journal website
Volume:
40
Issue:
2
Pages:
273-292
Publication date:
2014-06-11
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EISSN:
1728-4457
ISSN:
0098-7921
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Pubs id:
pubs:471733
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uuid:3eff71f6-f551-451b-9746-76b538f09cd3
Local pid:
pubs:471733
Source identifiers:
471733
Deposit date:
2016-12-01

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