During the last three decades, China has experienced the largest migration in human
history. China's great migration has had transformative social, economic, and demographic …

Background Although a number of studies have examined the effect of the out-migration of
children on the mental health of 'left behind'elderly parents, research on the consequences …

Described as the biggest migration in human history, an estimated 250 million Chinese
people have left their villages in recent decades to live and work in urban areas. Xinyuan …

This paper investigates the causal impact of mother's schooling on various outcomes of
adolescent development by exploiting the temporal and geographical variations in the …

Drawing on the life stories of 266 migrants in South China, Choi and Peng examine the
effect of mass rural-to-urban migration on family and gender relationships, with a specific …

Using data from the 2000 and 2010 Chinese population censuses and applying a consistent
definition of migration, we examine changing patterns of China's floating population during …

Since the end of 1990s, approximately 160 million Chinese rural workers migrated to cities
for work. Because of restrictions on migrant access to local health and education systems …

In China in 2018 over 200 million rural migrants worked away from their home villages,
fuelling the country's rapid economic boom. In the 2010s over sixty-one million rural children …

In theory, off-farm work, by raising household incomes, can have a direct impact on
smartphone use among rural residents and the use of these smartphones in turn enhances …

China's rapid urbanisation has induced large numbers of rural residents to migrate from their
homes in the countryside to urban areas in search of higher wages. As a consequence, it is …