讲座地点：科技楼C311

讲座时间：5月21日12：30-14：00

讲座摘要：Over 60 million children under the age of 18 are left behind by their parents in rural China. I examine the impact of migration by rural men on the educational attainment of their left-behind children in rural China. The importance of migratory duration and the timing of migration are addressed. Using survey data collected from six provinces in China, I found that comparing to children in households with no migrant parents, children in households with migrant father have lower probability of being enrolled in school. This negative effect is mostly due to medium and long-term migrations (more than 2 years). To the contrary of common belief, paternal migration before the birth of the child has a significant negative effect on the left-behind child's school enrollment. Paternal migration after the child reach school age also has a significant negative effect on the child's school enrollment, but paternal migration during the child is between the age of zero and six has a significant positive effect on the child's school enrollment. I provide a possible explanation for this pattern of the effects. These findings contribute in two ways to our understanding of the impact of parental migration on the left-behind children. First, they show that parental migration has a cumulative effect, and therefore, and thus we should treat long-term and short-term migration differently. Second, they suggest that the effects differ by the age stage of the child, and thus one should be aware of these different effects and be cautious when making policy suggestions.

演讲人简介：汪雪菲，西蒙菲莎大学(Simon Fraser University)经济学博士，现任中央财经大学中国人力资源与劳动经济研究中心讲师，主要研究领域为应用微观经济学、应用计量经济学、发展经济学等，学术论文发表于China Economic Review等期刊上。