Thesis
The impacts of father's migration on children's education in rural China: an analysis of gender, sibship size and birth order effects
Washington State University
Master of Arts (MA), Washington State University
2013
Handle:
https://hdl.handle.net/2376/100746
Abstract
In the last three decades mass rural-to-urban migration in China has had dramatic social consequences. This article uses the Gansu Survey of Children and Families data to examine how family structure factors (gender, sibship size and birth order) and father's migration status affect children's education enrollment and performance in rural China. Three models are specified in my research. The first model is a logistic regression model which is used to examine the effects of independent variables on children's education enrollment. The others are OLS regression models to investigate the relationship between independent variables and children's Chinese and math scores respectively. My results confirm that father's migration negatively affects children's school enrollment, Chinese and math scores. Furthermore, firstborn children are less likely to be enrolled in school and firstborns in migrant households perform worst in math scores. This is partial evidence that resource dilution operates in migrant households and disproportionately harms firstborn children. Moreover, this also indicates that children in migrant households v suffer from the disruptive effects of the absence of fathers in their daily life, although the effects depend on the child's birth order. In addition, I find that girls in families with larger family size are more likely to be enrolled in school and oldest boys are less likely to be enrolled. Besides from gender inequality, in order to better understand the impacts of family structure variables, further research is needed looking at the gender composition and birth order among siblings, especially in households with larger sibship size.
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- Title
- The impacts of father's migration on children's education in rural China
- Creators
- Hong Zhang
- Contributors
- Elizabeth Fussell (Degree Supervisor)
- Awarding Institution
- Washington State University
- Academic Unit
- Sociology, Department of
- Theses and Dissertations
- Master of Arts (MA), Washington State University
- Publisher
- Washington State University; [Pullman, Washington] :
- Identifiers
- 99900525056401842
- Language
- English
- Resource Type
- Thesis