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Showing 1 to 9 of 9 for “"parental migration"”.
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Essays on Parental Migration and Child Development
Large-scale rural-to-urban economic migration in developing countries leaves millions of rural-origin children growing up separated from their migrant parents. Due to the limited parent-child interaction, parental migration poses developmental challenges for left-behind children. This dissertation …
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Effects of Parental Migration on Education and Personality: Evidence from Indonesia
<p>In developing countries, migration can be an important method for many families and households to produce additional income via remittances in order to meet their needs or invest in their children. However, migration is a dynamic process and the absence of a parent can have negative effects on …
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Migration and Children's School and Labor: Evidence from El Salvador
<p>This paper examines the impact of parental migration on schooling outcomes for children left behind in El Salvador. Using cross sectional data collected in 2012, outcomes for children are observed for children with migrant parents. The outcomes are also analyzed by gender of the migrant parent …
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Labor Migration in China
… and what is the intergenerational impact of parental migration on children's risk preferences. In the first chapter, we briefly introduce the motivation and contribution, and then we provide the methods and detailed findings in the following chapters. Chapter 2 examines the impact of the …
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Migration, Family Separation, and Wellbeing
This thesis aims to further our understanding of migration, family separation and wellbeing, by conducting a systematic examination of how family separation impacts the wellbeing of the left-behind children and spouses in the context of the great internal migration in China. Drawing on the life …
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Essays on Rural-Urban Migration in China
… experienced the world's largest peacetime out-migration of its rural labor force to urban areas. The temporary nature of the labor migration complicates the control on this mobile population, and its multi-faceted influence on the whole economy makes the migration policy controversial. Based on …
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Internal Migration in China: New Perspectives on Family Life
… China has witnessed the largest internal migration in history, with millions of predominantly rural workers moving to become part of the urban workforce. The hukou household registration system means that migrant workers experience various forms of disadvantage relative to those born in …
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Promoting Positive Development Among Rural, Left-Behind Youth in China: A Mixed-Methods Approach
… contribute, prosociality, positive coping toward parental migration, positive coping, and academic motivation . Overall, the scale accounted for 74% of the total variance. The analyses resulted in a 68-item scale for environmental supports with eight subscales: school support, support of migrating …