Health Consequences of Rural‐to‐Urban Migration: Evidence from Panel Data in China

Song, Yang; Sun, Wei

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“…Labor migration is common around the world, but many studies on it focus on its effect on regional development (Page and Plaza, ), while its microscopic effect on individuals is less clear (Stillman et al., ; Song and Sun, ). Research on effects of parental migration has mostly concentrated on its effect on children's academic performance (Lee, ; Antman, ).…”

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Effect of Parental Migration on Children's Health in Rural China

Guo

Sun

Wang

2016

Review Development Economics

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Using 2003-2006 RCRE (Research Center for Rural Economy) panel data, we estimate the effect of parental migration on the health of children left behind, with a difference-in-differences and propensity score matching combined model. On average we do not find any significant effect on children's health; however, the effect varies among different groups. Children's health may improve as a result of parental migration in families with lower income in the base year and families with higher-income growth rates. Furthermore, children's health may deteriorate with maternal migration but improve with longer distance of paternal migration and longer time of paternal migration. We argue that parental migration affects children's health through complex mechanisms: income increase may have a positive impact while decreased parental care may have a negative effect. The two effects seem to offset each other in rural China.

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Effect of Parental Migration on Children's Health in Rural China

Guo

Sun

Wang

2016

Review Development Economics

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“…The main consensus is that the majority of rural migrants in cities lead second-class lives without much access to urban benefits. Studies have also suggested negative health and wellbeing consequences of rural-urban migration to migrants themselves (Song and Sun, 2015), and to the elderly and children left behind in the rural areas (Ao, Jiang, and Zhao, 2016;Li, Liu, and Zang, 2015;Xu and Xie, 2015;Murphy, Zhou, and Tao, 2015;Logan, 2011;De Brauw and Mu, 2011;Lee, 2011). …”

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Where are the migrants from? Inter- vs. intra-provincial rural-urban migration in China

Tesfazion

Zhao

2018

China Economic Review

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Standard-Nutzungsbedingungen:Die Dokumente auf EconStor dürfen zu eigenen wissenschaftlichen Zwecken und zum Privatgebrauch gespeichert und kopiert werden.Sie dürfen die Dokumente nicht für öffentliche oder kommerzielle Zwecke vervielfältigen, öffentlich ausstellen, öffentlich zugänglich machen, vertreiben oder anderweitig nutzen.Sofern die Verfasser die Dokumente unter Open-Content-Lizenzen (insbesondere CC-Lizenzen) zur Verfügung gestellt haben sollten, gelten abweichend von diesen Nutzungsbedingungen die in der dort genannten Lizenz gewährten Nutzungsrechte. Terms of use: Documents in EconStor may AbstractUsing a representative sample of rural migrants in cities, this paper investigates where the migrants in urban China come from, paying close attention to intra-provincial vs.inter-provincial migrants, and examining the differences in their personal attributes. We find that migrants who have come within the province differ significantly from those who have come from outside of the province. Using a nested logit model, we find that overall, higher wage differentials, larger population size, higher GDP per capita, and faster employment growth rate are the attributes of a city that attract migrants from both within and outside province. In addition, moving beyond one's home province has a strong deterrent effect on migration, analogous to the "border effect" identified in international migration studies. We also explore the role of culture, institutional barrier, and dialect in explaining such a pronounced "border effect".

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“…Although we have a comprehensive set of variables covering demographic, socio-economic and health characteristics, the possibility remains that if there are unobserved characteristics that would affect both individuals' changing public healthcare entitlements and healthcare utilisation, the standard PSM estimator would be biassed. To further improve identification, we utilise the difference-in-difference PSM method (Heckman et al, 1997;Song and Sun, 2016). This can be used to eliminate any time-invariant differences between the treatment and control groups, thereby allowing for selection on both observables and unobservables that are constant over time.…”

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Public Healthcare Entitlements and Healthcare Utilisation among the Older Population in Ireland

Nolan

2016

Health Economics

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The use of direct out-of-pocket payments to finance general practitioner (GP) care by the majority of the population in Ireland is unusual in a European context. Currently, approximately 40% of the population have means-tested access to free GP care, while the remainder must pay the full out-of-pocket cost. In this paper, we use data from The Irish Longitudinal Study on Ageing (TILDA) to examine the impact of the current system of public healthcare entitlements on GP utilisation among the older population. Using difference-in-difference propensity score matching methods, we find significant effects of changes in public healthcare entitlements on GP utilisation (i.e. introducing user fees reduces utilisation, while removing them increases utilisation). There is limited evidence of offset effects on other types of healthcare utilisation. The results have direct implications for current Irish health policy, and add to the international literature on the effects of insurance on healthcare utilisation. Copyright © 2016 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

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Health Consequences of Rural‐to‐Urban Migration: Evidence from Panel Data in China

Cited by 45 publications

References 48 publications

Effect of Parental Migration on Children's Health in Rural China

Effect of Parental Migration on Children's Health in Rural China

Where are the migrants from? Inter- vs. intra-provincial rural-urban migration in China

Public Healthcare Entitlements and Healthcare Utilisation among the Older Population in Ireland

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