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香港中文大学研究人员 ( 现职)
| 张俊森教授 (经济学系) |
| 张宏亮教授 (经济学系) |
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| 数位物件识别号 (DOI) http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jdeveco.2014.09.004 |
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摘要Many children worldwide are left-behind by parents migrating for work over 61 million in rural China alone, almost half of whom are left-behind by both parents. While previous literature considers impacts of one parent absent on educational inputs (e.g., study time, enrollment, schooling attainment), this study directly investigates impacts on children's learning (test scores) and distinguishes impacts of absence of one versus both parents. Dynamic panel methods that control for both unobserved individual heterogeneity and endogeneity in parental absence are used with data collected from rural China. The estimates indicate significant negative impacts of being left-behind by both parents on children's cognitive development, reducing their contemporary achievements by 5.4 percentile points for math and 5.1 percentile points for Chinese, but much smaller insignificant impacts of being left-behind by one parent. Cross-sectional evidence indicates that only absence of both parents is associated with substantially lower family inputs in after-school tutoring. (C) 2014 The Authors. Published by Elsevier B.V. This is an open access article under the CC BY-NC-ND license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/).
着者Zhang HL, Behrman JR, Fan CS, Wei XD, Zhang JS
期刊名称Journal of Development Economics
出版年份2014
月份11
日期1
卷号111
出版社ELSEVIER SCIENCE BV
页次181 - 195
国际标準期刊号0304-3878
电子国际标準期刊号1872-6089
语言英式英语
关键词China; Cognitive achievement; Left-behind children; Migrating parents
Web of Science 学科类别Business & Economics; Economics
