Determinants of school attendance among migrant children: Survey evidence from China's Jiangsu province

Pacific Economic Review

Volumn 11, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 461-476

  Nielsen, Ingrid ^a   Nyland, Berenice ^b   Nyland, Chris ^a   Smyth, Russell ^a   Z hang, Mingqiong ^a  

^a MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b RMIT UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DATA SET; ECONOMIC GROWTH; EDUCATIONAL DEVELOPMENT; HOUSEHOLD INCOME; MOTHERS EDUCATION; PRODUCTIVITY;

ASIA; CHINA; EURASIA; FAR EAST; JIANGSU;

EID: 33845296637     PISSN: 1361374X     EISSN: 14680106     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1468-0106.2006.00328.x     Document Type: Article

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