Children Left Behind in China : The Role of School Fees
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...
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okr-10986-256812021-06-08T14:42:46Z Children Left Behind in China : The Role of School Fees Dang, Hai-Anh Huang, Yang Selod, Harris child migration school fees public education spending urbanization 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 link between school fees and the decision of migrant parents to bring their children to the city. The analysis instruments the endogenous school fees with unexpected shocks to the city's public education spending, and empirically tests the theoretical predictions. The findings suggest that higher fees deter migrant workers from bringing their children, especially their daughters; reduce the number of children they bring; and increase educational remittances to rural areas for the children left behind. Increases in school fees most affect vulnerable migrant workers, and are likely to have stronger impacts during an economic crisis. These findings hold for different model specifications and robustness checks. 2016-12-05T23:35:37Z 2016-12-05T23:35:37Z 2016-11 Working Paper http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/661351478530302917/Children-left-behind-in-China-the-role-of-school-fees http://hdl.handle.net/10986/25681 English en_US Policy Research Working Paper;No. 7881 CC BY 3.0 IGO http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/igo/ World Bank World Bank, Washington, DC Publications & Research Publications & Research :: Policy Research Working Paper East Asia and Pacific China |
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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 link between school fees and
the decision of migrant parents to bring their children to
the city. The analysis instruments the endogenous school
fees with unexpected shocks to the city's public
education spending, and empirically tests the theoretical
predictions. The findings suggest that higher fees deter
migrant workers from bringing their children, especially
their daughters; reduce the number of children they bring;
and increase educational remittances to rural areas for the
children left behind. Increases in school fees most affect
vulnerable migrant workers, and are likely to have stronger
impacts during an economic crisis. These findings hold for
different model specifications and robustness checks. |
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Working Paper |
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Dang, Hai-Anh Huang, Yang Selod, Harris |
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Dang, Hai-Anh Huang, Yang Selod, Harris |
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Dang, Hai-Anh |
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Children Left Behind in China : The Role of School Fees |
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Children Left Behind in China : The Role of School Fees |
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Children Left Behind in China : The Role of School Fees |
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Children Left Behind in China : The Role of School Fees |
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Children Left Behind in China : The Role of School Fees |
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children left behind in china : the role of school fees |
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World Bank, Washington, DC |
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2016 |
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http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/661351478530302917/Children-left-behind-in-China-the-role-of-school-fees http://hdl.handle.net/10986/25681 |
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