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Migration Impact on Health and Labor of Children Left Behind: The Case of Kyrgyzstan

Student: Kanatbekova Asylgul

Supervisor: Evgenia Chernina

Faculty: Faculty of Social Sciences

Educational Programme: Population and Development (Master)

Year of Graduation: 2020

The unprecedented scale of labor migration from Kyrgyzstan left children behind. This study attempts to examine the effect of migration on the development of children through two components: health and labor participation. Health was analyzed in terms of the anthropometric results of the left-behind child: height for age and weight for age z, while child labour is defined as an absence at school due to work. As a research method, the difference method was used. Estimates showed that migration increases the amount of child labor and reduces school attendance. Girls seem to have more deprivation than boys in the form of education. But no significant effect of migration on health outcomes was found.

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