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2022
Heterogeneous impact of social integration on the health of rural-to-urban migrants in China
Heterogeneous impact of social integration on the health of rural-to-urban migrants in China
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Background: While several studies have found that lower levels of social integration may lead to a deterioration in the health status of migrants, previous research on the nexus between social integration and health has generally ignored the potential endogeneity of social integration. This paper examines the heterogeneous impact of social integration on the health of rural-to-urban migrants in China by exploiting plausibly exogenous, long-term, geographic variation in dialectal diversity. Methods: Drawing on nationally representative data from the 2017 China Migrants Dynamic Survey (n = 117,446), we first regressed self-reported health on social integration using ordinary least squares estimation and then used an ordered probit model as a robustness check. Additionally, to rule out the potential endogeneity of social integration, we relied mainly on an instrumental variable approach and used dialectal diversity as a source of exogenous variation for social integration. Results: We found that social integration has a significant positive impact on rural-to-urban migrants’ health. We also detected considerable heterogeneity in the effects of social integration across gender, generation, and wage levels: the health status of women, more recent generation migrants, and migrants with wages in the middle of wage distribution are more likely to be affected by social integration. Conclusions: We confirmed the beneficial impact of social integration on migrants’ health, which has some important policy implications. Successful migration policies should take the fundamental issue of migrants’ social integration into account.
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International journal of environmental research and public health, 19 (2022), 16, 9999.
https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph19169999.
ISSN: 1660-4601
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@article{Lu2022,
url = {https://hohpublica.uni-hohenheim.de/handle/123456789/16584},
doi = {10.3390/ijerph19169999},
author = {Lu, Haiyang and Kandilov, Ivan T. and Nie, Peng et al.},
title = {Heterogeneous Impact of Social Integration on the Health of Rural-to-Urban Migrants in China},
journal = {International journal of environmental research and public health},
year = {2022},
volume = {19},
number = {16},
}