The Impact of Parents Migration on the Well-being of Children Left Behind: Initial Evidence from Romania

Friedhelm Pfeiffer
Authors registered in the RePEc Author Service: Alina Botezat

No 8225, IZA Discussion Papers from Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)

Abstract: Many children grow up with parents working abroad. Economists are interested in the achievement and well-being of these "home alone" children to better understand the positive and negative aspects of migration in the sending countries. This paper examines the causal effects of parents' migration on their children left home in Romania, a country where increasingly more children are left behind in recent years. Using samples from a unique representative survey carried out in 2007 instrumental variable and bivariate probit estimates have been performed. Our initial evidence demonstrates that in Romania home alone children receive higher school grades, partly because they increase their time allocation for studying. However, they are more likely to be depressed and more often suffer from health problems especially in rural areas.

Keywords: home alone children; parent migration; Romania; well-being (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: I12 I21 J13 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 26 pages
Date: 2014-05
New Economics Papers: this item is included in nep-hap, nep-mig, nep-tra and nep-ure
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Published - published as 'The Impact of labour migration on left-behind children's educational and psychosocial outcomes: Evidence from Romania' in: Population, Space and Place 2020, 26 (1), e2277

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