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The Causal Effects of Rural-to-Urban Migration on Children's Wellbeing in China.
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29 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.
- Health impacts of parental migration on left-behind children and adolescents: a systematic review and meta-analysis.Lancet (London, England) · 2018Pooled it
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- The Effect of Emotional Neglect on Cyberbullying among Rural Chinese Left-behind Adolescents-Mediating Role of Social Anxiety.Children (Basel, Switzerland) · 2023Article
- The Causal Effects of Urban-to-Urban Migration on Left-behind Children's Well-Being in China.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2023Article
- A cross-sectional study on knowledge and behavior regarding medication usage among guardians of left-behind children: evidence from China.BMC public health · 2023Article
- Parental migration and children's dietary diversity at home: Evidence from rural China.PloS one · 2023Article
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- The Peer Effect on Dietary and Nutritional Cognition among Primary School Students.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2022Article
- Internal Migration and Depression Among Junior High School Students in China: A Comparison Between Migrant and Left-Behind Children.Frontiers in psychology · 2022Article
- Internal migration and child health: An investigation of health disparities between migrant children and left-behind children in China.PloS one · 2022Article
- Internal Migration Experience and Depressive Symptoms among Middle-Aged and Older Adults: Evidence from China.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2021Article
- Effect pathways of informal family separation on children's outcomes: Paternal labor migration and long-term educational attainment of left-behind children in rural China.Social science research · 2021Article
- Family Arrangements and Children's Education Among Migrants: A Case Study of China.International journal of urban and regional research · 2020Article
- Effect of Parental Migration on the Intellectual and Physical Development of Early School-Aged Children in Rural China.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2020Article
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Abstract
China's rural-to-urban migration has affected 12.6 million school-age rural children who have migrated with their parents and another 22 million who have been left behind by their migrant parents. Not enough is known, either theoretically or empirically, about the causal impact of migration on the wellbeing of this large number of Chinese children affected by migration. Propensity score matching methods are applied to estimate the effects of migration in children 10-15 years old from a 2010 national survey (N = 2,417). Children's migration has significant positive effects on their objective wellbeing but no negative effects on their subjective wellbeing. There is little difference between the left-behind and non-migrant children across multiple life domains. The Rosenbaum bounds tests indicate that the causal effects of child migration are sensitive to hidden bias for certain outcomes, but not for others.
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