This paper uses data from the Mexican Family Life Survey to estimate the impact of a household member's migration to the United States on the cognitive development of children remaining in Mexico. While there is no developmental effect of a child's sibling migrating to the United States, there...

This presentation summarizes a study which attempts to estimate the impact of family-member migration, from Mexico to the United States, on cognitive development of the children remaining in Mexico. The study uses data from the Mexican Family Life Survey (MxFLS) to construct Raven's progressive...