"The Impact of Migration on Children"

项目描述（由申请人提供）：该项目旨在了解中国快速城市化中流动家庭儿童的福祉。特别是，我们研究了两种不同的 移徙者之间的家庭安排-将子女带到城市还是将子女留在农村-因此，不同的物质、家庭和经济环境对儿童的福祉产生了影响。本文利用最近对中国12个城市流动人口子女的调查，从不同维度（身体健康、学业成就和社会发展）测量了流动人口子女的幸福感，并分析了个人、家庭、学校和社区等层面的因素对流动人口子女幸福感的影响。除了家庭安排，我们特别感兴趣的是住房条件，父母缺席，性别和经济改善在儿童福利中的作用，以及这些因素如何影响城市中的“流动儿童”和农村中的“留守儿童”。该项目将现有的移民研究重点从移民的经济战略转向其子女的福祉。该项目综合了关于移徙和儿童发展的文献，采用多学科方法，并利用工具变量等统计工具，旨在全面了解移徙、特别是移徙者家庭安排对儿童福祉的影响。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): This project aims to understand the well-being of children in migrant families in rapidly urbanizing China. In particular, we study how two different family arrangements among migrants -- bringing children with them to cities vs. leaving children behind in villages -- and consequently different physical, familial and economic environments on children's well-being. Utilizing a recent survey on migrants in 12 Chinese cities, we measure children's well-being in different dimensions (physical health, academic achievement, and social development), and analyze how factors at individual, household, school and community level affect children's well- being. In addition to family arrangement, we are especially interested in the role of housing condition, parental absence, gender, and economic improvement in children's well-being, and how these factors affect "migrant children" in cities and "left-behind children" in villages differently. This project shifts the existing research focus in migration fro economic strategies of migrants to the well-being of their children. Combining literature on migration and child development, adopting a multi-disciplinary approach, and utilizing statistical tools such as instrumental variables, this project aims to provide a comprehensive understanding of the impact of migration in general and migrants' family arrangements in particular on children's wellbeing.