Host: Jingjing Ye, Associate Professor, RIEM
Time: 2:30pm-4:00pm, April 25, Friday
Venue: H513 Yide Hall, Liulin Campus
Abstract: Over 60 million children under the age of 18 are left behind by their parents in rural China. I examine the impact of migration by rural men on the educational attainment of their left-behind children in rural China. The importance of migratory duration and the timing of migration are addressed. Using survey data collected from six provinces in China, I found that comparing to children in households with no migrant parents, children in households with migrant father have lower probability of being enrolled in school. In addition, the effect shows an interesting oscillating pattern: paternal migration when the child is young, especially still a infant, increases school enrollment later, but migration before birth and when the child is older, especially after school age, decreases school enrollment. I provide a possible explanation for this pattern of the effects. Paternal migration has sizable cumulative effect, and both median- and long-term migration decreases school enrollment significantly, while short-term migration has an insignificant effect.
About the speaker: Sophie Xuefei Wang 是中央财经大学中国人力资本与劳动经济研究中心助理教授，2012年毕业于加拿大Simon Fraser 大学，获经济学博士学位。她的研究方向为应用微观经济学、应用计量经济学、发展经济学、教育经济学等。她的论文发表于International Journal of Management and Marketing Research、The B.E. Journal of Economic Analysis & Policy、China Economic Review等英文期刊上。她的个人网址是 http://humancapital.cufe.edu.cn/plus/view.php?aid=134。
