Research on the Education of Migrant Children in China: A Review of the Literature

Yuanyuan Chen (), Shuaizhang Feng () and Yujie Han ()
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Yuanyuan Chen: School of Economics, Shanghai University of Finance and Economics, Shanghai 200433, China; Key Laboratory of Mathematical Economics (Ministry of Education), Shanghai University of Finance and Economics, Shanghai 200433, China
Shuaizhang Feng: Institue for Economic and Social Research, Jinan University, Guangzhou 510632, China

Frontiers of Economics in China-Selected Publications from Chinese Universities, 2019, vol. 14, issue 2, 168-202

Abstract: With the rapid urbanization and mass internal migration in China during the past several decades, the population of children who migrate with their parents to the cities has now reached over 35 million. The education of migrant children poses significant challenges to China's hukou based education system. In this paper, we first review the policy developments and descriptive studies related to migrant children's education to offer a comprehensive view of the issue. We then provide in-depth examination of several important quantitative literatures, including the effect of parental migration on children's education, schooling choices of migrant children and their impacts on school performance, peer effects of migrant children in urban public schools. Overall, although considerable progress has been made regarding migrant children's education in China, more fundamental policy reforms are necessary to improve the quality of migrant children's education at the compulsory education level and beyond.

Keywords: migrant children; education; public schools; migrant schools; compulsory education; hukou (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: I28 J15 O15 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2019
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