How Far is Chinese Left-Behind Parents' Health Left Behind?
Huang, Bihong; Lian, Yujun; & Li, Wensu. (2016). How Far is Chinese Left-Behind Parents' Health Left Behind? China Economic Review, 37, 15-26.
Huang, Bihong; Lian, Yujun; & Li, Wensu. (2016). How Far is Chinese Left-Behind Parents' Health Left Behind? China Economic Review, 37, 15-26.
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Using data from the four waves of the China Health and Nutrition Survey (CHNS), this paper assesses the impacts of adult children migration on the health of their parents left behind. We employ the endogenous treatment effects model to address the selection bias and infer the causal effects of children migration on parental health. We find that children migration significantly impairs the health of their elderly kin. Moreover, children migration has remarkably differentiated locality, gender, age, and employment impacts, with rural, female, old-aged, and unemployed parents being more likely to suffer from poor health than their urban, male, middle-aged, and employed counterparts.
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Huang, Bihong
Lian, Yujun
Li, Wensu
2016
China Economic Review
37
15-26
1043-951X
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.chieco.2015.07.002
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