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 …

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

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 …

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 …

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 …

countries particularly susceptible to economic hardship. We examine the role of remittances in either alleviating or increasing … causality and endogeneity and find that while income smoothing does not appear to be the main motive for sending remittances in … a non-negligible share of households, remittances do indeed smooth household income on average. Other variables …

elderly in Mexico for whom family support is an important source of income. Using data from the Mexican Income and Expenditure … Survey and a triple difference approach, we find that the program crowds out private gifts by 37 percent, and it does so … mostly by reducing the probability of receiving domestic remittances. As a result, the non-labor income of beneficiaries …

A sizable literature has concluded that remittances impact the expenditure patterns of households. We explore how the …