In this study, we investigate the association between men's labor migration and changes in their non-migrating wives’ self-rated health (SRH) over time using longitudinal data from rural Mozambique. In addition to comparing wives of non-migrants and wives of migrants, we account for variation in the economic impact of migration and in migrants’ phone communication with their spouses. We find that migrants’ wives are significantly less likely to report low SRH, compared to non-migrants’ wives, net of other factors. However, this net advantage is concentrated among migrants’ wives who receive frequent remittances and who report that their households’ conditions have improved thanks to husband's migration. We also find that women who engage in frequent phone communication with their migrant husbands have decreased likelihoods of low SRH, compared to migrants’ wives who do not communicate with their husbands during their migration and to women married to non-migrants, regardless of other characteristics. We interpret these findings within the context of multifaceted gendered implications of men's migration for left-behind women's health and wellbeing.

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撒哈拉以南非洲农村地区的男性移徙和女性健康：移徙经济回报和配偶沟通的作用

在这项研究中，我们利用莫桑比克农村地区的纵向数据，调查了男性劳务移民与其非移民妻子自评健康（SRH）随时间变化之间的关系。除了比较非移民的妻子和移民的妻子之外，我们还考虑了移民对经济的影响以及移民与其配偶的电话沟通的差异。我们发现，扣除其他因素后，与非移民的妻子相比，移民的妻子报告性健康和生殖健康水平较低的可能性要小得多。然而，这种净优势主要集中在移民妻子身上，她们经常收到汇款，并且她们表示，由于丈夫的移民，她们的家庭条件有所改善。我们还发现，与移徙期间不与丈夫交流的移徙者妻子以及与非移徙者结婚的妇女相比，与移徙丈夫经常进行电话交流的妇女性健康和生殖健康水平较低的可能性较低，无论其他特征如何。我们在男性移民对留守女性健康和福祉的多方面性别影响的背景下解释这些发现。