Morooka Hideki, Liang Zai
Department of Sociology, Fayetteville State University, 1200 Murchison Road, Fayetteville, NC 28301.
Asian Pac Migr J. 2009;18(3):345-370. doi: 10.1177/011719680901800302.
This study examines the educational consequences for those children of emigrants who are left behind in Fujian Province, China. Specifically, we compare the school enrollment for children from emigrant households with the school enrollment for children from non-emigrant households. The data are drawn from the 1995 China 1% Population Sample Survey. We find consistent evidence that emigration affects educational opportunity for children in a positive way. First, children from emigrant households are more likely to be enrolled in schools than children from non-emigrant households. Second, emigration also has positive consequences in reducing gender gap in education. Although girls from non-emigrant households still experience a lower enrollment rate, for the emigrant households the overall school enrollment for boys and girls has been approaching convergence.
本研究考察了那些留在中国福建省的移民子女所面临的教育后果。具体而言,我们将移民家庭子女的入学情况与非移民家庭子女的入学情况进行了比较。数据取自1995年中国1%人口抽样调查。我们发现了一致的证据,表明移民对儿童的教育机会有积极影响。首先,移民家庭的孩子比非移民家庭的孩子更有可能入学。其次,移民在缩小教育中的性别差距方面也有积极影响。虽然非移民家庭的女孩入学率仍然较低,但对于移民家庭来说,男孩和女孩的总体入学率已趋于接近。