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This paper explores the immediate effects of a father's U.S. migration on his children's schooling and work outcomes in … Mexico. To get around the endogeneity of paternal migration, I use individual fixed effects and IV estimation where the ….S. migration. Decomposing the sample into sex- and age-specific groups shows that the main group driving these results are 12 …
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A recent surge in child migration to the U.S. from Honduras, El Salvador, and Guatemala has occurred in the context of … and child migration to the United States using novel, individual-level, anonymized data on all 178,825 U.S. apprehensions … poverty. Due to diffusion of migration experience and assistance through social networks, violence can cause waves of …
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This paper analyses the effect of migration of men from rural areas in Pakistan on children in households "left behind … children's education. Second, it is tested if migration of men from households reduces gender inequality in households …' expenditures on children's education. This gendered distribution is analyzed by estimating the effect of migration on the share of …
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How do policies that ease the integration of immigrants shape their fertility decisions? We use a panel survey of undocumented Venezuelan migrants in Colombia to compare the fertility decisions of households before and after the launch of an amnesty program that granted such migrants a labor...
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investments for the household. On the other hand, migration of the parent which is the source of remittances may have a disrupting … households spend more on secondary school expenses and on any sort of educational purposes. These findings suggest migration and …
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In this paper we estimate production functions for cognition and health throughout four stages of childhood from 5-15 years of age using two cohorts of children drawn from the Young Lives Survey for India. The inputs into the production function include parental background, prior child cognition...
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When social security is established to provide pensions to parents, their reliance upon children for future financial support decreases; and their need to save for retirement also falls. We use the expansion of pension coverage from the state sector to the non-state sector in urban China as a...
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We estimate production functions for cognition and health for children aged 1-12 in India, where over 70 million children aged 0-5 are at risk of developmental deficits. The inputs into the production functions include parental background, prior child cognition and health, and child investments....
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We estimate production functions for cognition and health for children aged 1-12 in India, based on the Young Lives Survey. India has over 70 million children aged 0-5 who are at risk of developmental deficits. The inputs into the production functions include parental background, prior child...
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I exploit the staggered roll-out of a universal early childhood development program in Chile to assess the impact of a comprehensive approach to early childhood development on outcomes in middle childhood. Using variation across time and municipalities, I study outcomes such as school...
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