Adult Child Migration and the Health of Elderly Parents Left Behind in Mexico
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Adult Child Migration and the Health of Elderly Parents Left Behind in Mexico.
Research on international migration often focuses on the outcomes for emigrants at their destination, thereby overlooking the consequences for the family members of migrants remaining in the home country. In source countries with rapidly aging populations such as Mexico, a critical public policy concern is how the elderly dependents of US migrants fare while their children are away. This paper ...
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عنوان ژورنال: American Economic Review
سال: 2010
ISSN: 0002-8282
DOI: 10.1257/aer.100.2.205