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Social Disadvantage and Children's Nutritional Status in Rural-Urban Migrant Households

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  • Lin, Carl

    (Bucknell University)

  • van der Meulen Rodgers, Yana

    (Rutgers University)

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This article uses an innovative rural-urban migrant survey to assess how social disadvantage is associated with children's nutritional status in migrant households. Measures of social disadvantage are based on China's hukou system of household registration (designed to limit domestic migration flows by denying urban public services to migrants with rural registrations) and on son preference (stemming in part from the strict one-child policy). Regression results indicate that a rural hukou status is negatively associated with children's weight-for-age Z-scores, even after controlling for household characteristics, and girl children exhibit poorer nutritional status than boys. Results from a quantile decomposition procedure confirm that left-behind children have lower nutritional scores than children who migrate with their parents, and the gaps are biggest at lower portions of the distribution.

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  • Lin, Carl & van der Meulen Rodgers, Yana, 2020. "Social Disadvantage and Children's Nutritional Status in Rural-Urban Migrant Households," IZA Discussion Papers 13888, Institute of Labor Economics (IZA).
    • Handle: RePEc:iza:izadps:dp13888
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    Keywords

    migration; China; children; health; nutrition;
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    JEL classification:

    • I10 - Health, Education, and Welfare - - Health - - - General
    • J61 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Mobility, Unemployment, Vacancies, and Immigrant Workers - - - Geographic Labor Mobility; Immigrant Workers

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