TY - JOUR
T1 - Determinants of school attendance among migrant children: survey evidence from China's Jiangsu province
AU - Nielsen, Ingrid Louise
AU - Nyland, Berenice
AU - Nyland, Chris
AU - Smyth, Russell Leigh
AU - Zhang, Mingqiong
PY - 2006
Y1 - 2006
N2 - 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.
AB - 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.
UR - http://<Go to ISI>://000242836400004
U2 - 10.1111/j.1468-0106.2006.00328.x
DO - 10.1111/j.1468-0106.2006.00328.x
M3 - Article
SN - 1361-374X
VL - 11
SP - 461
EP - 476
JO - Pacific Economic Review
JF - Pacific Economic Review
IS - 4
ER -
