that migrants and non-migrants are likely to differ in unobservable ways that also affect children's educational outcomes …Estimation of the causal effect of parental migration on children's educational attainment is complicated by the fact … have no effect on the educational outcomes of children who are at least 20 because they have already completed their …

, suggesting that father absence does not play a major role in determining children's educational outcomes. Instead, these results …

We study the impact of adult children's internal migration on the health and subjective well-being of elderly parents … left behind, distinguishing between the gender of the migrant children. To overcome migration endogeneity, we exploit novel … and exogenous variation in children's astrological characteristics and apply instrumental variables methods. We find a …

We study the impact of adult children's internal migration on the health and subjective well-being of elderly parents … left behind, distinguishing between the gender of the migrant children. To overcome migration endogeneity, we exploit novel … and exogenous variation in children's astrological characteristics and apply instrumental variables methods. We find a …

that migrants and non-migrants are likely to differ in unobservable ways that also affect children's educational outcomes …Estimation of the causal effect of parental migration on children's educational attainment is complicated by the fact … have no effect on the educational outcomes of children who are at least 20 because they have already completed their …

Many children grow up with parents working abroad. Economists are interested in the achievement and well-being of these … paper examines the causal effects of parents' migration on their children left home in Romania, a country where increasingly … "home alone" children to better understand the positive and negative aspects of migration in the sending countries. This …

Many children grow up with parents working abroad. Economists are interested in the achievement and well-being of these … paper examines the causal effects of parents' migration on their children left home in Romania, a country where increasingly … "home alone" children to better understand the positive and negative aspects of migration in the sending countries. This …

Educational outcomes of children are highly dependent on household and schoollevel inputs. In poor countries …, remittances from migrants can provide additional funds for the education of the left behind. At the same time the absence of … migrant parents can affect families’ time allocation towards education. Previous work on education inputs often implicitly …