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Labor Migration and Time Use Patterns of the Left-behind Children and Elderly in Rural China
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In this article, an analysis of the impact of internal migration on the time allocation patterns of the left-behind elderly and children in rural China, 1997-2006, contributes to the literature on changes in the well-being of the Left-behind population.About:
This article is published in World Development.The article was published on 2011-12-01. It has received 288 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Internal migration & Population.read more
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The Causal Effects of Rural-to-Urban Migration on Children’s Well-being in China
Hongwei Xu,Yu Xie +1 more
TL;DR: The Rosenbaum bounds tests indicate that the causal effects of child migration are sensitive to hidden bias for certain outcomes, but not for others, and there is little difference between the left-behind and non-migrant children across multiple life domains.
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Depression risk of 'left-behind children' in rural China.
TL;DR: The results indicate that the left-behind children in rural China are at greater risk for developing depression.
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Does parental absence reduce cognitive achievements? Evidence from rural China
TL;DR: In this article, the authors investigated the impacts of one parent absent on educational inputs (e.g., study time, enrollment, schooling attainment) and distinguished impacts of absence of one versus both parents.
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Moving off the farm: Land institutions to facilitate structural transformation and agricultural productivity growth in China
TL;DR: Li et al. as mentioned in this paper explored the impact of government land reallocations and formal land-use certificates on agricultural productivity growth, as well as the likelihood of households to exit from agriculture or send family members to the non-farm sector.
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Health of China's rural–urban migrants and their families: a review of literature from 2000 to 2012
TL;DR: Social, economic, emotional, environmental and behavioural risk factors that impact on health of migrants and their families call for more attention from health policy-makers and researchers in contemporary China.
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Econometric Analysis of Cross Section and Panel Data
TL;DR: This is the essential companion to Jeffrey Wooldridge's widely-used graduate text Econometric Analysis of Cross Section and Panel Data (MIT Press, 2001).
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Economic Development with Unlimited Supplies of Labour
TL;DR: In this article, the authors present a different framework for solving problems of distribution accumulation and growth first in a closed and then in an open economy, where the assumption of an unlimited labor supply is used.
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A model of labor migration and urban unemployment in less developed countries.
TL;DR: In this paper, an economic behavioral model of rural urban migration is formulated which represents a realistic modification and extension of the simple wage differential approach commonly found in the literature and this probablistic approach is incorporated into a rigorous model of the determinants of urban labor demand and supply which when given values for the crucial parameters can be used among other things to estimate the equilibrium proportion of the urban labor force that is not absorbed by the modern industrial economy.
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Peasant Household Behaviour with Missing Markets: Some Paradoxes Explained.
TL;DR: In this paper, a model of peasant household behavior under varying degrees of household-specific food and labor market failures is constructed to show that these structural features can explain several well known patterns of peasant response which have often been attributed to peculiar motives, presumed specific to peasants.
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