To Migrate With or Without Ones' Children in China - That is the Question

Yiwen Chen, Vincent Fromentin (), Ioana Salagean and Benteng Zou
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Yiwen Chen: CREA - Center for Research in Economic Analysis - uni.lu - Université du Luxembourg = University of Luxembourg = Universität Luxemburg
Vincent Fromentin: CEREFIGE - Centre Européen de Recherche en Economie Financière et Gestion des Entreprises - UL - Université de Lorraine
Ioana Salagean: STATEC - Institut National de la Statistique et des Etudes Economiques - Institut de Luxembourg

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Abstract: Where should Chinese internal migrant parents locate their school-aged children: migrate with them or leave them behind? And should they invest in private education of their children? We investigate whether migrant parents can afford to take their children to migrate and thus provide theoretical optimum that maximizes migrant parents' utility which includes the children's educational performance. Depending on the educational investment parents make and the relocation cost of children, we provide necessary and sufficient conditions under which migrant parents should take their children to migrate and conditions under which migrant parents should provide their children with private education.

Keywords: Chinese Internal Migrant Children; Left-behind Children; Chinese Hukou System; Educational Performance (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2017
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Published in Annals of Economics and Statistics, 2017, 135, pp.69-88. ⟨10.15609/annaeconstat2009.135.0069⟩

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DOI: 10.15609/annaeconstat2009.135.0069

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