Parental Migration in Childhood and Individual Wellbeing in Adulthood

• DOI: 10.1007/s11482-023-10185-w
• Publication Date: 2023-06-05T05:01:41Z
• Authors: Lijia Guo
• Keywords: Physical health; Early adulthood

Abstract Parental absence due to parental migration has been a prevalent phenomenon in developing countries, occurring on an exceptionally large scale China. While previous literature focused the concurrent effects of children, this study aims investigate whether impact during childhood is long-term and lasts into adulthood. This examines how individuals with experience differ from their counterparts early adulthood, terms mental wellbeing, physical health, cognitive ability. uses sample 6031 aged 18 30 years old nationally representative dataset China Family Panel Studies. The results show that both-parental negatively associated individual’s health while positively ability