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Determinants of school attendance among migrant children: Survey evidence from China's Jiangsu province

Nielsen, I, Nyland, B, Nyland, C, Smyth, R and Zhang, M 2006, 'Determinants of school attendance among migrant children: Survey evidence from China's Jiangsu province', Pacific Economic Review, vol. 11, no. 4, pp. 461-476.

Document type: Journal Article
Collection: Journal Articles

Title Determinants of school attendance among migrant children: Survey evidence from China's Jiangsu province
Author(s) Nielsen, I
Nyland, B
Nyland, C
Smyth, R
Zhang, M
Year 2006
Journal name Pacific Economic Review
Volume number 11
Issue number 4
Start page 461
End page 476
Total pages 15
Publisher Blackwell Publishing
Abstract Across the developing world education is seen as a means of raising levels of everyday wellbeing and is being linked to improved measures of productivity and economic growth. This paper employs a household production function framework to examine the determinants of school attendance among migrant children using a unique dataset collected in China's Jiangsu province. The study finds that the main predictors of school attendance among migrant children in the sample were household income, mother's education, the length of residence of the child's mother in the city and whether both parents were working in the same city.
Subject Sociology of Education
Copyright notice © 2006 The Authors, Journal compilation © 2006 Blackwell Publishing Ltd
ISSN 1468-0106
 
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