作者: Hanchen Jiang , Xi Yang
DOI:
关键词:
摘要: Many children worldwide are left behind by parents who migrating for work. While previous literature has studied the effect of parental migration on children's educational outcomes and cognitive achievements, this study focuses how affects non-cognitive development. We use longitudinal data in rural China adopt labor market conditions destination provinces as instrumental variables endogenous choice. find that a significant negative Differentiating inter- intra-provincial migrations suggests is mainly driven inter-provincial migrations. test four different mechanisms child development including financial inputs, time household bargaining, own input. Our results provide insights into relative importance determining skill formation.