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Emigration, remittances and the education of children staying behind : evidence from Tajikistan

Dietz, Barbara; Gatskova, Kseniia; Ivlevs, Artjoms - 2015

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 … effect. Migration of non-parent family members (such as siblings) is particularly detrimental to school attendance …

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Grohmann, Tobias - 2023

Theory suggests that cultural similarity of countries increases migration flows between them. This paper brings best … practices from the trade gravity literature to migration and tests this prediction. In my preferred specification, I use lags of … time-varying similarity variables in a panel of international and domestic migration flows (>200 countries, 1990-2019, 5 …

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Income fluctuations and subjective well-being : partially mediating effects of remittances

Tokhirov, Azizbek - 2023

. The results of triple difference-in-differences estimations reveal that remittances mediate the negative effects of export …

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Migration and remittances in Tajikistan : survey technical report

Danzer, Alexander M.; Dietz, Barbara; Gatskova, Kseniia - 2013

households and respondents follows. -- Tajikistan ; panel data ; survey design ; migration …

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Migration, education and the gender gap in labour force participation

Abdulloev, Ilhom; Gang, Ira N.; Yun, Myeong-Su - 2014

gap in labour force participation. We highlight the role of two factors - international migration and education - on the … education and migration have a significant association with the gender gap in labour force participation in Tajikistan … participation. Both women acquiring greater access to education and men increasing their migration abroad contribute to reducing the …

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The impact of non-cognitive skills and risk preferences on rural-to-urban migration : evidence from Ukraine

Ayhan, Sinem H.; Gatskova, Kseniia; Lehmann, Hartmut - 2017

willingness to take risks increase the probability of migration. On the other hand, the non-cognitive skills conscientiousness and …

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Exchange market pressures during the financial crisis : a Bayesian model averaging evidence

Feldkircher, Martin; Horváth, Roman; Rusnak, Marek - 2013

In this paper, we examine whether pre-crisis leading indicators help explain pressures on the exchange rate (and its volatility) during the global financial crisis. We use a unique data set that covers 149 countries and 58 indicators, and estimation techniques that are robust to model...

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The natural resource curse in post-soviet countries : the role of institutions and trade policies

Horváth, Roman; Zeynalov, Ayaz - 2014

We examine the effect of natural resource abundance on economic performance during the 1996-2011 period in the 15 independent countries that formerly comprised the Soviet Union. These countries were a largely homogeneous group with respect to institutional development, liberalization and...

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Trade patterns and endogenous institutions : global evidence

Frensch, Richard; Horváth, Roman; Huber, Stephan - 2016

We propose a novel way to measure the rule of law intensity of exports at the goods level based on nearly 100 million disaggregated bilateral trade flows around the globe. We categorise goods into three groups: fragmented, primary and other. The theoretical literature on holdup problems...

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Does Trust Promote Growth?

Horváth, Roman - 2012

We examine the effect of generalized trust on long-term economic growth. Unlike in previous studies, we use Bayesian model averaging to deal rigorously with model uncertainty and attendant omitted variable bias. In addition, we address endogeneity and assess whether the effect of trust on growth...

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