The Consequences of Migration for Child Well-being in Sending Areas

人口流动对输出地区儿童福祉的影响

• 批准号: 7771898
• 负责人: Yao Lu
• 金额: $ 8.02万
• 依托单位: COLUMBIA UNIV NEW YORK MORNINGSIDE
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 2010
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2010-08-01 至 2012-07-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/7771898
• 关键词: Accounting; Adult; Affect; Area; Behavioral; Child; Child Development; Child Welfare; Child health care; Cognitive; Complex; Costs and Benefits; Country; Data; Data Analyses; Data Set; Developing Countries; Development; Dimensions; Economics; Education; Educational Status; Emotional; Family; Family Leave; Family Life Surveys; Future; Health; Health Status; Health education; Household; Immigration; Indonesia; Institutionalization; Internal Migrations; International; International Migrations; Investments; Knowledge; Lead; Left; Life; Literature; Living Standards; Local Government; Mediating; Methods; Mexican; Mexico; Migrant Workers; Modeling; Nomads; Out-Migrations; Outcome; Parents; Pathway Analysis; Personal Satisfaction; Play; Process; Remittance; Research; Research Personnel; Shapes; Societies; Stream; Testing; UNICEF; USAID; Urbanization; Well in self; Work; child well being; comparative; cost; design; human capital; improved; insight; intervention program; migration; neglect; physical conditioning; psychosocial; public health relevance; social; socioeconomics

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): Rising internal and international migration has affected a growing number of children in developing countries. Most of these children are left behind as one or both parents leave to seek work elsewhere. Migration represents a distinct form of parental absence, and is likely to affect these children in complex ways, generating sizeable social costs as a result of parental absence, but bringing economic benefits through remittances. However, the growing body of literature has not examined these multiple influences of migration and their mediating mechanisms within a single framework. The proposed project will examine the effects of parental out-migration on child well-being in two developing settings. Using high-quality longitudinal datasets from Mexico and Indonesia with excellent comparability and rich micro- and macro-level information (the Mexican Family Life Survey and the Indonesia Family Life Survey), and building on a conceptual framework developed in the PI's previous work, this project seeks to: (1) examine both the beneficial and detrimental impacts of migration on key aspects of well-being (educational status, cognitive development, and health) of children left behind in Mexico and Indonesia; (2) explore how various socioeconomic, psychosocial, and behavioral factors mediate the effects of migration on child well-being; (3) assess the generalizability of results across two streams of migration (within-country and cross-country out- migration); and (4) examine the generalizability of results across the two research settings. Longitudinal data analysis methods (fixed- and random-effect modeling) will be used to strengthen causal claims. This research will be the first comprehensive study of children left behind by migrants in developing settings. It outlines and tests a complex conceptual framework, examining both beneficial and disruptive effects of out- migration on a wide array of child outcomes. Findings will contribute to the debate on whether and how migration shapes child well-being in developing societies. Results from the comparative analysis will lead to a more adequate framework that can better and more broadly interpret the consequences of out-migration for children. Both the conceptual framework and the analytic approach developed and refined in this research can be adapted in other settings and help inform future work. PUBLIC HEALTH RELEVANCE: This research will provide comprehensive and robust information on the effects of out-migration on children's health, education, and cognitive development. Such information can inform the design of intervention programs by local governments and global development organizations such as USAID and UNICEF, to reinforce the benefits while mitigating the costs of out-migration for children's health and well-being. 1

描述（由申请人提供）：国内和国际移民的增加影响了发展中国家越来越多的儿童。这些儿童中的大多数都是父母一方或双方外出寻找工作而留下的。移徙是父母不在的一种独特形式，可能以复杂的方式影响这些儿童，因父母不在而产生巨大的社会成本，但通过汇款带来经济利益。然而，越来越多的文献没有在一个单一的框架内审查移徙的这些多重影响及其调解机制。拟议的项目将在两个发展中国家审查父母外移对儿童福祉的影响。使用墨西哥和印度尼西亚提供的高质量纵向数据集，这些数据集具有很好的可比性和丰富的微观和宏观信息（墨西哥家庭生活调查和印度尼西亚家庭生活调查），并在公共信息研究所以前工作中制定的概念框架的基础上，该项目力求：（1）审查移徙对福祉关键方面的有利和不利影响（2）探讨各种社会经济、心理社会和行为因素如何调节移民对儿童福祉的影响;（3）评估两种移徙流（国内移徙和跨国向外移徙）结果的普遍性;（4）审查两种研究背景下结果的普遍性。将使用纵向数据分析方法（固定效应和随机效应模型）来加强因果关系。这项研究将是对发展中国家移民留守儿童的第一次全面研究。它概述并检验了一个复杂的概念框架，审查了向外移民对儿童的各种结果的有益和破坏性影响。调查结果将有助于辩论移民是否以及如何塑造发展中社会的儿童福祉。比较分析的结果将导致一个更适当的框架，可以更好和更广泛地解释儿童向外移徙的后果。在本研究中开发和完善的概念框架和分析方法可以在其他环境中进行调整，并有助于为未来的工作提供信息。 公共卫生相关性：这项研究将提供全面和可靠的信息，说明外移对儿童健康、教育和认知发展的影响。这些信息可以为地方政府和美国国际开发署和联合国儿童基金会等全球发展组织设计干预方案提供信息，以加强利益，同时减少外移对儿童健康和福祉的成本。1