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This paper explores the impact of international migration on school enrollment of children staying behind in Tajikistan …. Counterfactual situations are constructed for children belonging to households with and without migrants, remittance receiving and … nonreceiving households, and households with migrant parents to single out the impact of migration and remittances. The results …
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This paper investigates whether unconditional cash transfers can keep refugee children in school and out of work. We … and female refugee children. Being a beneficiary household reduces the fraction of children working from 14.0 percent to 1 ….6 percent (a decrease of 88 percent) and the fraction of children aged 6-17 not in school from 36.2 to 13.7 percent (a reduction …
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This paper investigates whether unconditional cash transfers can keep refugee children in school and out of work. We … and female refugee children. Being a beneficiary household reduces the fraction of children working from 14.0 percent to 1 ….6 percent (a decrease of 88 percent) and the fraction of children aged 6-17 not in school from 36.2 to 13.7 percent (a reduction …
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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 …
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for the household sector? Can we capture the relevant impact of the remittances on the education level in Egypt? The … purpose of this study is to examine the impact of remittances on the level of educational attainment of children between ages … phenomenon among Egyptians and remittances can play an important role in alleviating household budget constraints. How do …
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working and education. I look at the empirical relationship between working and educational expenditure budget shares for … children age 5-14 in Mexico. I accomplish this using a household fixed effects model and data from two waves of the Mexican … Family Life Survey (MxFLS). The results indicate that working increases school expenditure shares for working children. In …
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This paper focuses on the effects of domestic and international remittances on children's well-being. Using data from … remittance recipient and non-recipient households. The results of our cross-section and panel analyses indicate that remittances … increase schooling and reduce child labour. Although international remittances are found to have a stronger beneficial impact …
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This paper investigates the determinants of school attendance of children and their mother's working status when the … mother decides how to allocate her time and that of her children. A multilevel random effects model is applied to study the … mother's participation and the schooling status of her children in a joint framework. Using the second National Family Health …
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