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The Effect of Parental Migration on the Schooling of Children Left Behind in Rural Cambodia

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  • Francesca Marchetta Author-Name: Sokcheng Sim

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Growing rural-to-urban and international migration flows have sparked concerns about investments in the education of left-behind children in Cambodia. We drew on a panel household-level survey conducted in rural villages in 2014 and 2017 to analyze the relationship between parental migration and schooling of children. The analysis revealed that children of migrant parents lag significantly behind in terms of years of completed schooling. We used the longitudinal dimension of the data to estimate a placebo test, which greatly reduced concerns related to the possible confounding effect of unobserved heterogeneity. The negative effect that we uncovered appeared to be driven largely by reduced parental input in children’s education rather than by an increase in child labor.

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  • Francesca Marchetta Author-Name: Sokcheng Sim, 2020. "The Effect of Parental Migration on the Schooling of Children Left Behind in Rural Cambodia," Working Papers PMMA 2020-18, PEP-PMMA.
    • Handle: RePEc:lvl:pmmacr:2020-18
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    1. Sergiu Bălțătescu & Tomasz Strózik & Kadri Soo & Dagmar Kutsar & Dorota Strózik & Claudia Bacter, 2023. "Subjective Well-being of Children Left Behind by Migrant Parents in Six European Countries," Child Indicators Research, Springer;The International Society of Child Indicators (ISCI), vol. 16(5), pages 1941-1969, October.
    2. Gosselin-Pali, Adrien, 2025. "Migration and nutrition of the left behind: Evidence from Ghana," World Development, Elsevier, vol. 188(C).

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    JEL classification:

    • F22 - International Economics - - International Factor Movements and International Business - - - International Migration
    • R23 - Urban, Rural, Regional, Real Estate, and Transportation Economics - - Household Analysis - - - Regional Migration; Regional Labor Markets; Population
    • I25 - Health, Education, and Welfare - - Education - - - Education and Economic Development

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