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    No Longer Left Behind: The Impact of Return Migrant Parents on Children’s Performance

    Liu, Zhiqiang; Yu, Li; Zheng, Xiang | April 2017
    Abstract
    Using data from a rural household survey for the People’s Republic of China in 2009, we examine the impact of parental migration on children’s educational outcomes. Consistent with the findings of a large empirical literature, we find that parental migration has a significantly negative impact on left-behind children’s educational outcomes as measured by test scores in Chinese and mathematics. However, unlike many of the existing studies on the subject, we focus on the remediation effect of return migrant parents on once-left-behind children’s performance. This empirical strategy allows us to avoid the endogeneity issue concerning the migration decision that may have contaminated previous studies. We find evidence that return migrant parents help alleviate the harm caused by parental migration. We explore two channels through which return migrant parents may improve children’s school performance. One is that children spend more time studying following migrant parents’ return. The other is that return migrant parents spend more on their children’s education. We also find evidence suggesting that the remediation effect is stronger for children attending primary school and for daughters.
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    Liu, Zhiqiang; Yu, Li; Zheng, Xiang. 2017. No Longer Left Behind: The Impact of Return Migrant Parents on Children’s Performance. © Asian Development Bank Institute. http://hdl.handle.net/11540/7300.
    Keywords
    Quality Education
    Levels Of Education
    Higher Education Costs
    Educational Testing
    Educational Surveys
    Educational Reforms
    Results-Based Monitoring And Evaluation
    Public Policy Evaluation
    Program Evaluation
    Evaluation Criteria
    Examinations
    Higher education institutions
    Free education
    Educational policy
    Project finance
    Technology assessment
    Resources evaluation
    Aid evaluation
    Economic evaluation
    Cost benefit analysis
    Objective tests
    Educational tests and measurements
    College preparation programs
    College dropouts
    Discrimination in higher education
    Universities and colleges
    Educational accountability
    Scholarships
    Prediction of dropout behavior
    Scholarships
    Results mapping
    Self-evaluation
    Participatory monitoring and evaluation
    Educational evaluation
    Cost effectiveness
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    Liu, Zhiqiang
    Yu, Li
    Zheng, Xiang
    Theme
    Education
    Evaluation
    Labor Migration

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