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Fathers' Migration and Nutritional Status of Children in India: Do the Effects Vary by Community Context?
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- Implications of migration on health and education: returned migrants and school teachers perspective in India: A qualitative study.Journal of migration and health · 2025Review
- Concurrent Undernutrition and Overnutrition within Indian Families between 2006 and 2021.Current developments in nutrition · 2023Article
- Factors Influencing Undernutrition among Female Adolescent Students in Darchula District, Nepal.Nutrients · 2023Article
- The gendered practices of the upwardly mobile in India.Social science research · 2022Article
- Understanding the Socio-Economic Vulnerability in Child Malnutrition Between Migrants and Non-Migrants Children (12-59 Months) in India: Evidence from a Cross-Sectional Study.Child indicators research · 2022Article
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backgroundDue to international and internal migration, millions of children in developing countries are geographically separated from one or both of their parents. Prior research has not reached a consensus on the impacts of parental out-migration on children's growth, and little is known about how community contexts modify the impact of parental out-migration.
objectiveWe aim to assess the overall impacts of fathers' previous and current migration experiences on children's nutritional status in India and how the impacts are shaped by community socioeconomic contexts and community gender norms.
methodsUsing data from the Indian Human Development Survey collected in 2011-2012, we estimated community fixed-effect regression models predicting the nutritional status of children (ages 10-15) and examined the interactions among fathers' migration, child's gender, and community contexts.
resultsThe results showed that children of returned migrants had lower height and Body Mass Index (BMI) than children of non-migrants. Fathers' current absence was associated with lower height and BMI for adolescents in communities with high levels of socioeconomic development but not for those in communities with low levels of development. Fathers' current absence due to migration was especially harmful for girls in communities with strict norms of female seclusion. CONTRIBUTION: Our findings highlight that the effects of father's out-migration on children are conditioned by the level of communities' socioeconomic development and community gender contexts, which helps to reconcile the previously mixed findings on the effects of parental migration on child outcomes.
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