Abstract
This study investigates the impacts of migration on children’s health and nutrition in rural Cambodia, where emigration has been rapidly increasing. If we estimate the impacts through the simultaneous use of data vis-à-vis migration variables and the “remittance from migrants” variable, we could encounter endogeneity, selection bias, and/or multicollinearity problems. To cope with these issues, we estimate the impacts of migration and remittance by applying panel data modeling analysis techniques to unique data from rural Cambodia. The estimation results show that the impacts of migration on children’s health are negative and robust; the impacts of remittances on child nutrition, however, are positive and not robust.
