migrant access to local health and education system a large cohort of migrant children are left-behind in rural villages and … growing up without parental care. This paper examines how parental migration affects children's health and education outcomes … home village when they were young we find a sizable adverse impact of exposure to parental migration on children's health …

children living in poor households in Ethiopia, India (Andhra Pradesh state), Peru and Vietnam. By adopting a methodology to … power has larger effects on girls' health than on boys' health in Peru and Vietnam. In contrast, in India, maternal … bargaining power has a negative effect on girls' health, whereas in Ethiopia no differential effect is found. Further analysis …

began, but a lack of resources and policies to protect poor families hampered children’s access to education, especially for … non-compulsory school grades. Different phenomena associated with transition also negatively affected children’s education …: e.g. parental absence due to migration, health problems, and alcohol abuse. These findings call for a greater policy …

This paper investigates the impact of parental education on child health outcomes. To identify the causal effect we … leaving age by one year had little effect on the health of their offspring. Schooling did however improve economic … child health are at most modest. …