The Impact of Having One Parent Absent on Children' Food Consumption and Nutrition in China.

ABSTRACT: The rapid economic and social development in the past decades has greatly increased the societal acceptance of divorce and non-marital pregnancies in China, which leads to a soaring number of single-parent children. This paper aimed to investigate the impact of having one parent absent on children' food consumption and nutrition status. We extracted 1114 children from a longitudinal household survey data in China, all of which were observed twice. Using the Propensity Score Matching and Difference-in-Difference methods, we found that being raised by one parent does not have a negative effect on children's food consumption and nutrition intake. On the contrary, single-parent families tend to provide more food to their children as a compensation for the absence of one parent and this compens

SUBMITTER: Tian X 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6950458 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature