Migration and young child nutrition: evidence from rural China

Ren Mu () and Alan Brauw ()

Journal of Population Economics, 2015, vol. 28, issue 3, 657 pages

Abstract: The unprecedented large-scale rural-to-urban migration in China has left many rural children living apart from their parents. In this study, we examine the impact of parental migration on the nutritional status of young children in rural areas. We use the interaction terms between wage growth, by gender, in provincial capital cities and initial village migrant networks as instrumental variables to account for migration selection. Our results show that parental migration has no significant effect on the height of children, but it improves their weight. We provide suggestive evidence that the improvement in weight may be achieved through increased access to tap water in migrant households. Copyright Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2015

Keywords: Migration; Children; Nutrition; Rural China; I15; J61; O16; O12 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: I15 J61 O12 O16 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2015
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DOI: 10.1007/s00148-015-0550-3

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