Parental migration, nurturing care, and early social-emotional development of children in rural China

Around one-third of children experience separation from parents and absence of parental care due to parental migration in rural China. Despite numerous studies on left-behind children, little is known about early social-emotional development of those who experience parental migration in the first three years. This study explored whether and why parental migration is associated with children's early social-emotional development. We used data of...