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are for rural females. For children in wealthier households, the effects of remittances are either negative or non … on schooling for non-migrant households that receive remittances and no effects for children living in households where …We exploit the size of the 2010 Ecuadorian Census to estimate the effect of remittances on secondary school enrollment …
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This paper explores the impact of international migration on school enrollment of children staying behind in Tajikistan …. Counterfactual situations are constructed for children belonging to households with and without migrants, remittance receiving and … nonreceiving households, and households with migrant parents to single out the impact of migration and remittances. The results …
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We study how migration affects education of girls in Tajikistan - the poorest post-Soviet state and one of the most … remittances. In contrast, school attendance of teenage girls (ages 12-17) falls when siblings migrate, while parental migration … and remittances have no effect. Having a grandmother as the head of household after parents (typically fathers) migrate …
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In this paper, we focus on the use of remittances to school children remaining in migrant communities in Haiti. After … addressing the endogeneity of remittance receipt, we find that remittances raise school attendance for all children in some … remittances by the household lifts budget constraints and raises the children's likelihood of being schooled, the disruptive …
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wage distribution in the destination country either from the size of remittances or directly from migrants. If their … estimations to Tajikistan’s data, as well as with controlling for an endogeneity issue with the variable of interest, we estimate …
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Tajikistan has a negative signaling effect on the education of children staying behind. …We study the relationship between migration and childrenś education in Tajikistan - one of the poorest and most … family members is negatively associated with childrenś school attendance. Receiving remittances does not offset this negative …
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This paper investigates the impact of remittances on health outcomes in Tajikistan and finds a positive effect. While … for all household members (adults and children). We use an IV-approach to control for the endogeneity of remittances, and … existing literature shows that remittances increase health care expenditure, expenditure alone is an incomplete proxy for …
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indicators has emerged as remittances to developing countries have risen substantially over the past decade. If remittances … capital investment, remittances may serve as a vehicle for growth. In this paper, we use the 2010 Nepal Living Standards … Survey III (NLSS III) to examine how remittances affect household expenditures on human capital investment. Overall, our …
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receipt of remittances affect educational outcomes in Haiti. Based on a theoretical approach it tries to disentangle the … effects of both phenomena that have mostly been jointly modeled in previous literature. The results suggest that remittances … high poverty rate in the country. -- Haiti ; education ; remittances ; migration …
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purpose of this study is to examine the impact of remittances on the level of educational attainment of children between ages … phenomenon among Egyptians and remittances can play an important role in alleviating household budget constraints. How do … Egyptians invest their income received from remittances? Do remittances act as a significant tool to relax budget constraints …
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