Impact of Internal Migration Diversity on Child Welfare: Evidence from Vietnam

Trung Hoang, Thang Chien Nguyen and Van Thi Le Nga

Hitotsubashi Journal of Economics, 2022, vol. 63, issue 2, 149-168

Abstract: This study uses the Vietnam Living Standards Households Survey 2018 to document the relationship between birthplace diversity and child welfare in Vietnam. To address the endogeneity issue of birthplace diversity, we construct an instrumental variable. The endogeneity-corrected estimates show that a 1 percent increase in birthplace diversity significantly increases education expenditure per capita for children aged 2 to 18 by 0.9 percent and health expenditure for children aged 6 to 11 by 0.5 percent. We document an income channel through which birthplace diversity affects child welfare. Our instrumental variable estimation provides consistent results when we use an alternative instrumental variable. Our findings suggest that promoting migration is likely to be an effective way of enhancing the welfare of children and increasing economic prosperity.

Keywords: birthplace diversity; welfare; childrenʼs education and health; instrumental variable; Vietnam (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: I1 I3 J1 O1 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2022
References: View references in EconPapers View complete reference list from CitEc
Citations:

Downloads: (external link)
https://hermes-ir.lib.hit-u.ac.jp/hermes/ir/re/78381/HJeco0630201490.pdf

Related works:
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text

Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:hit:hitjec:v:63:y:2022:i:2:p:149-168

DOI: 10.15057/hje.2022008

Access Statistics for this article

More articles in Hitotsubashi Journal of Economics from Hitotsubashi University Contact information at EDIRC.
Bibliographic data for series maintained by Digital Resources Section, Hitotsubashi University Library ().