Journal article
Effects of parents' migration on the education of children left behind in rural China
- Abstract:
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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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- Publication status:
- Published
- Peer review status:
- Peer reviewed
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- Publisher:
- Wiley Publisher's website
- Journal:
- Population and Development Review Journal website
- Volume:
- 40
- Issue:
- 2
- Pages:
- 273-292
- Publication date:
- 2014-06-11
- DOI:
- EISSN:
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1728-4457
- ISSN:
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0098-7921
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- Pubs id:
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pubs:471733
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uuid:3eff71f6-f551-451b-9746-76b538f09cd3
- Local pid:
- pubs:471733
- Source identifiers:
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471733
- Deposit date:
- 2016-12-01
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- Copyright holder:
- Population Council, Inc
- Copyright date:
- 2014
- Notes:
- © 2014 The Population Council, Inc.
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