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Decades of economic reform have led to the unprecedented growth of economically driven rural-to-urban internal migration in China. According to China's 2010 census, more than 61 million children between birth and 17 years old were “left behind.” In this lab-in-field experiment, we explore whether parental migration status has a significant influence on whether or not a child chooses to cheat. We study samples from four populations: rural children left behind by both parents, rural children left behind by one parent, rural non-left-behind children, and urban children. We find evidence of cheating among all four samples. However, grade 3 urban students have a significantly greater propensity to cheat than either grade 3 rural students or grade 5 students whether rural or urban. Parental migration status has no effect on the propensity to cheat among rural students in grade 3, but by grade 5 rural children with both parents at home appear less likely to cheat than those for whom both parents are absent. |
