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 …

Estimation of the causal effect of parental migration on children's educational attainment is complicated by the fact … siblings' ages at the time of parental migration. The basic assumption underlying the analysis is that parental migration will … educations. Their younger siblings, in contrast, may still be in school, and thus will be affected by the parental migration …

This paper addresses the effects of migration on families left behind and offers new evidence on the impact of … migration on elderly parents. After discussing the identification issues involved in estimation, I review the literature on the … effects of migration on the education and health of non-migrant children as well as the labor supply of non-migrant spouses …

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 …

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 …

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 …