主题：Children of Migrants: The Impact of Parental Migration on their Children Education and Health Outcomes
主讲人：澳大利亚国立大学 Xin Meng教授
主持人：西南财经大学 赵国昌副教授
时间：2014年3月19日下午2：30－4点
地点：柳林校区C302
主办单位：经济与管理研究院 科研处
主讲人简介：
Xin Meng ,1993年毕业于澳大利亚国立大学经济系，现澳大利亚国立大学经济研究院教授、澳大利亚社会科学院士。他的主要研究方向为劳动经济学、教育经济学、发展经济学和应用微观经济学。他在Science, Journal of Labour Economics, Journal of Public Economics, Journal of Development Economics, Journal of Comparative Economics, Journal of Economics Perspectives, Education Development and Culture Change, Journal of Population Economics, Review of Income and Wealth, Education Economics, Labour Economics 等英文期刊上发表论文多篇。
内容提要：
In the past 15 years around 160 million Chinese rural workers migrated to cities to work. Because of restrictions on migrant access to local health and education system a large cohort of migrant children are left-behind in rural villages and growing up without parental care.This paper examines how parental migration affected these childrens health and education outcomes. Using the longitudinal Rural Household Survey data from Rural-Urban Migration in China (RUMiC) Project and instrumenting parental migration with weather changes in their home village when they were young, we find a sizable adverse impact of long-term parental migration on left-behind childrens health and education: If a childs mother was away one quarter of the childs life, the child is likely to be 0.35 standard deviation shorter and his/her mathematics and Chinese test score are 4.2 and 5.8 percentage points lower, respectively, than a child whose mother was never away. The size of the effect exerted from father's migration is similar.
