A recent surge in child migration to the U.S. from Honduras, El Salvador, and Guatemala has occurred in the context of …

distributions of income in Latin America. At the other extreme, Guatemala, Honduras and Nicaragua were among the most unequal … inequality in El Salvador and Nicaragua decreased while inequality in Costa Rica, Guatemala and Honduras increased. By 2009 … and Nicaragua but increased in Costa Rica, Guatemala and Honduras. -- income inequality ; Central America ; labour income …

By 2020, one in four Salvadorans lived abroad, with 88 percent residing in the United States. The remittances to GDP …-educated, informal workers, and those in agriculture. We also document a decline in the probability of receiving remittances. The …

terms of both consumption and leisure time. Drawing on household panel data in rural Mexico, I find that migration increases … improves left-behinds' welfare through two different channels: (i) migrants' remittances exceed their forgone income …

a large Mexican panel survey to provide novel evidence on the correlation between the occurrence of an international … its members left behind joining another household. The endogeneity of co-residence choices has implications for survey …

the analysis of the effects of paternal migration and remittances on the children left behind. First, it can give rise to …

subsequent arrival cohorts of Mexican and Central American immigrants, the more economically disadvantaged group of immigrants …

households with and without health care coverage. -- Remittances ; health care ; household expenditures ; Mexico …Using Mexico's 2002 wave of the Encuesta Nacional de Ingresos y Gastos de los Hogares (ENIGH), we find that … international remittances raise health care expenditures. Approximately 6 pesos of every 100 peso increment in remittance income are …

We consider the issue of illegal migration from Mexico to the US, and examine whether the lack of legal status causally …

migrants from Mexico, as well as from other Latin American countries, U.S. immigration policy can have a significant impact on … the volume of remittances to the Latin American region. This paper studies how a generalized amnesty - a provision in the … 1986 Immigration Reform and Control Act (IRCA), affected immigrants' remitting patterns. In models that control for …