Two-fifths of the 279 million children in China are directly affected by the on-going massive internal migration. Using data from a nationally representative survey covering junior high school students in both rural and urban areas, we examine the causal impacts of different migration processes (parental migration, child migration, and hukou conversion) on rural children’s wellbeing measured by...

ijur_890 936..956 The market transition in China has resulted in significant social inequality, including housing inequality, in a formerly egalitarian society. This article provides both a conceptual framework and an empirical analysis of housing inequality in transitional urban China. Using the 1995 1% Population Survey and the 2000 Census data for Beijing, it shows that there was significant...

This article explores the effect of meeting opportunities between local urban and nonlocal residents on locals’ prejudice against migrant children in China by focusing three contexts: friendships, schools neighbourhoods. China’s hukou policy creates a boundary rural residents, which also takes form locals nonlocals rural-to-urban migration. Urban public with mix students offer chance to observe...

background there are few quantitative documents about the seasonal incidence of tuberculosis (tb) among immigrant populations. concerning the significant role of recognizing seasonal changes of tb in improving the tb control program, this study determines the trend and seasonal temporal changes of tb among immigrants entering iran.   methods in this longitudinal study, data from the iranian tb ...

BACKGROUND Public health care dominated the services provision in China before 1980s. However, the number of private health care providers in China has been increasing since then. The growth of private hospitals escalated after a market-oriented reform was implemented in 2001. Through an experimental approach, this study aims to a better understanding of the dynamic change in preference of heal...

The massive scale of new-generation rural-urban migrants in China has attracted extensive scholarly attention recent years. While previous studies on China’s rural migrant workers focus migrants’ individual settlement intentions, migrant’s family migration decision-making and the intergenerational differences between old-generation are underexplored. Based data 2017 Migrants Dynamic Survey, thi...

Human activities have profoundly changed the hydrological regime and trends of rivers lakes, which, in turn, has affected utilization their navigable conditions. However, few studies focused on effects changes regimes lakes Thus, this study intensively analyzes investigates depth at major control sections lake area during dry season period before 2002, when Three Gorges Reservoir was not yet co...