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| Title: | Household resources, household composition, and child nutritional outcomes |
| Authors: | Cameron, Michael P.
Lim, Steven |
| Keywords: | migration
household composition
children
Thailand |
| JEL Codes: | I12
O15
O18 |
| Issue Date: | 2007 |
| Series/Report no.: | Conference Paper |
| Abstract: | In many developing countries the composition of rural households is influenced by the migration
of adult household members to urban locations in search of employment. Children may be left in
the care of their mother alone, or in the care of grandparents when both parents have migrated.
Using representative data from rural Northeast Thailand, this paper investigates whether
household composition has any effect on the nutritional outcomes of children. Our findings
suggest that household types other than nuclear families result in some significantly worse child
nutritional outcomes. One implication is that governments should target programs to protect the
welfare of the children of migrants in origin communities. |
| URI: | http://purl.umn.edu/10371 |
| Institution/Association: | Australian Agricultural and Resource Economics Society - 2007>2007 Conference (51st), February 13-16, 2007, Queenstown, New Zealand |
| Total Pages: | 22 |
| Language: | English |
| Collections: | 2007 Conference (51st), February 13-16, 2007, Queenstown, New Zealand
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