A UCLA study, using numbers from visa applications, estimated that there are 40,000 Taiwanese parachute kids aged 8 to 18 in the United States.

据加利福尼亚大学洛杉矶分校的研究表明，利用签证申请的数据推测，在美国大约有4万名年龄界于8岁到18岁的台湾小留生。

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S. universities. But the communities into which these kids parachute benefit too, from Chinese money that funds schools and has many trickle-down benefits.

这些地方也因为这些空降的孩子得到好处，中国人的钱让学校有了更多资金，还产生了许多涓流效应。

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For example, her newspaper article on "parachute kids" children of wealthy Asian parents who buy a house in a good neighborhood with good schools, then return to Asia to let their children pretty much raise themselves was the basis of her first novel, The Jasmine Trade.

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