The impact of adult children rural-urban migration on left-behind parents' health: Evidence from China

文献类型： 外文期刊

第一作者： Zhang, Chi

作者： Zhang, Chi;Lyu, Kaiyu;Zhang, Chongshang;Cheng, Xiaoyu

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关键词： adult children migration; left-behind parents; physical health; mental health; remittances; rural China

期刊名称：FRONTIERS IN PUBLIC HEALTH （ 影响因子：6.461； 五年影响因子：6.002 ）

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年卷期： 2022 年 10 卷

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收录情况： SCI

摘要： Population aging and rural-urban migration have posed challenges to the elderly support system in developing countries that lack social safety net and services. Given that there is no consistent conclusion in the literature on whether adult children's internal migration can improve or impair their left-behind parents' health, little is known about the effect mechanisms. This paper investigates the comprehensive impact of adult children's migration on the health of their parents in rural China by analyzing the income effect and time allocation effect. The empirical analysis uses the rural sample of the China Health and Retirement Longitudinal Study (CHARLS) in 2013, 2015, and 2018. We found that adult children migration can improve parents' physical health, mainly thanks to the income effect. The analysis of the mechanism found that although the income effect has a positive effect on parents' health, the time allocation effect has a negative effect on parents' health because of the lack of care and increased working hours of parents. Our findings suggest that providing social care services and enhancing intergenerational communication can be practical strategies to mitigate the negative effect of children's migration to rural left-behind elderly parents.

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