父母异地非农就业对农村儿童营养摄入的影响研究

Impact of parental migration on children's nutrition intakes

与父母在家务农相比,父母异地非农就业能显著提升儿童热量摄入水平,这种影响对低收入农户家庭尤为明显,但对高收入家庭作用并不显著;父母异地非农就业对儿童蛋白质摄入并没有太明显的影响。但是,与父母在本地非农就业相比,父母异地非农就业不仅不能改善儿童热量摄入,还显著降低儿童蛋白质摄入量,且这种影响对于高收入农户尤为明显。这表明随着收入水平提升,父母照料在提升儿童营养水平中的重要性凸显。这对反思我国不完全的城市化模式,促进农户本地非农就业,或父母异地非农就业但小孩随迁具有重要的政策涵义。

This paper analyzes the impact of parental migration on calorie and protein intake of children from different income groups.The results show that parental migration significantly increases children 's caloric intake and the positive effect is more significant in low income group while children whose parents engaged in agricultural production in local area are not affected.However,it has no significant impact on children's protein intake. Though children whose parents working off-farm in local area show no difference,parental migration decreases children's protein intake significantly while has no significant impact on caloric intake and the negative effect is more significant in high income group. The result has significant policy implications in terms of urbanization mode,promotion of local non-farm employment as well as children's migration with their parents.