persistence of transitory shocks and their implications for the persistence of poverty and income inequality. The results suggest … to overall income inequality increased from 20 percent in 1990 to over 70 percent in 1998 and the persistence of poverty … that 52 to 69 percent of income inequality in West Germany were due to permanent differences between individuals and that …

-family transfers and education. We highlight an education motive for remittances, according to which migrants have an incentive to … constraints are binding and education is fostered by migrant remittances. We test these hypotheses on Indian panel data …. Identification is based on within variation in household composition. We find that remittances received from migrants significantly …

remittances via trans-national networks affect human capital investments through relaxing resource constraints and facilitate … remittances on school enrolment and child work in Ecuador. Identification relies on instrumental variables, exploiting information … on source countries of remittances and regional variation in the availability of bank offices that function as formal …

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 …

large rise in remittances, and an increased flow of skilled migration. However, recent literature based on cross … than characteristics of their family situations explains much of the higher remittances. …

concerning educational inequality should include, not just the possibilities for remediating the skill levels of poor children …

quantitative theory to study the dynamic implications of informality on wage inequality, human capital accumulation, child labor … and long-run growth. Our model can generate transitory informality equilibria or informality-induced poverty traps. Its … calibration reveals that the case for the poverty-trap hypothesis is strong: although informality serves to protect low …