We examine the effect of remittances from abroad on households' schooling decisions using data for El Salvador …. Following the massive war-related emigration of the 1980's, remittances became a significant source of household income … income from a source that is uncorrelated with parental schooling remittances , we find that remittances have a large …

We compile large datasets from Norwegian and US historical censuses to study return migration during the Age of Mass … Migration (1850-1913). Return migrants were somewhat negatively selected from the migrant pool: Norwegian immigrants who …