This paper explores the impact of international migration on school enrollment of children staying behind in Tajikistan … nonreceiving households, and households with migrant parents to single out the impact of migration and remittances. The results … other household members. Receiving remittances reduces the adverse impact of migration by only 1-3 percentage points. The …

We study how migration affects education of girls in Tajikistan - the poorest post-Soviet state and one of the most … remittances. In contrast, school attendance of teenage girls (ages 12-17) falls when siblings migrate, while parental migration … and remittances have no effect. Having a grandmother as the head of household after parents (typically fathers) migrate …

Having a family member migrant reduces not only the labor force participation but also the job satisfaction of those … wage distribution in the destination country either from the size of remittances or directly from migrants. If their … estimations to Tajikistan’s data, as well as with controlling for an endogeneity issue with the variable of interest, we estimate …

motivation in the framework of extended family agreements, we embed remittances in a formal demand system, suggesting that they … analysing the determinants of remittances. -- international migration ; household behaviour ; remittances …

This paper investigates the impact of remittances on health outcomes in Tajikistan and finds a positive effect. While … existing literature shows that remittances increase health care expenditure, expenditure alone is an incomplete proxy for … significant share of the population. Our study explores the impact of remittances on proxies of health outcomes beyond expenditure …

endogenous effect increases family members' incentives to specialize as caregiver. The model's predictions are tested using novel …

. This change in living arrangements, which involves the extended family of the migrant, has two relevant implications for … the analysis of the effects of paternal migration and remittances on the children left behind. First, it can give rise to …

This paper examines the effect of international migration on the welfare of family members left behind at the origin … improves left-behinds' welfare through two different channels: (i) migrants' remittances exceed their forgone income …

their own country. Labor migration is conventionally viewed as economically benefiting the family members who are left … behind through remittances. However, splitting up families in this way may also have multiple adverse effects on education …, health, labor supply response, and social status for family members who do not migrate. Identifying the causal impact of …