The barriers faced by Chinese rural-urban migrants to access social services, particularly education, in host cities could help explain why the majority of migrants choose to leave their children behind. This paper proposes a theoretical framework that allows for an explicit discussion of the...

This study examines the long-term effects of a national policy of Vietnam that provided free public health care for all children under 6 years old, 74.2% of whom were previously uninsured. I estimate the effects of exposure to the policy at age 0 to 6 on outcomes at age 7 to 21, when individuals...

This research estimates the impact of international child sponsorship on adult income and wealth of formerly sponsored children using data on 10,144 individuals in six countries. To identify causal effects, an age-eligibility rule followed from 1980 to 1992 is utilized that limited sponsorship...