| Strikingly we found that depression was particularly high in poorer households with no outmigrant children. |
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| We defined an outmigrant child as a child living outside the parent's district of residence 5 for a minimum of the past 3 months. |
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| From the perspective of the country which they leave, they are called emigrant or outmigrant. |
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| Farming was also not disrupted due to the absence of male labourers from outmigrant households because of the growing land renting practices. |
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