WITHDRAWN: Does household registration control affect investment in education for left-behind children? Evidence from China

Abstract

Using data from the China Household Income Project Survey (CHIPS 2007), this paper investigates the relationship between household registration control and the educational investment for the left-behind children from both theoretical and empirical perspectives by citing a theoretical model that includes factors such as household registration control, work schedules of agricultural migrants, and the educational investment for the left-behind children, as well as an empirical analysis using a mediation test model. The findings show that (1) deregulation of urban household registration helps migrant workers increase their investment in education-based human capital of their left-behind children, and the findings remain robust when the key independent and dependent variables are replaced. (2) By further using the mediation effect analysis, we find that the change in the duration of working outside the city plays a complementary mediating role between the two, and the mediation effect of the duration of working outside the city remains robust under the conditions of changing the key independent variables and changing the mediation effect test method.