Migration is often viewed as an investment decision. Temporary migrants can be expected to invest less in accumulating … human capital theory and a household production model of migration where migrants may be temporary by choice and not because …

effect among children living in households that do not experience any family out-migration. Our finding underscores the … simultaneous and opposing impacts of household out-migration and remittance receipt on children's schooling. While the receipt of … effect of household out-migration imposes an economic burden on the remaining household members and reduces their likelihood …

Migration flows are shaped by a complex combination of self-selection and out-selection mechanisms. In this paper, we …-capital structure of current migration flows. Our analysis exploits a bilateral data set on international migration by educational … various determinants of migration, we find diasporas increase migration flows, lower their average educational level and lead …

We investigate the relationship between remittances and migrants' education both theoretically and empirically, using … between remittances and migrants' education is ambiguous and depends on the immigration policy conducted at destination. The … effect of education is more likely to be positive when the immigration policy is more restrictive and less skill …

of remittances it considers include migration levels or rates, migrants' education level, and source countries' income … migrants send home. This paper examines whether remittances actually increase with migrants' education level. The determinants … tertiary education. This provides an additional reason for which source countries would prefer unskilled to skilled labor …

Research on the relationship between high-skilled migration and remittances has been limited by the lack of suitable … enables us to analyze the effect of migrants' education on their remittance behavior. Having comprehensive information on both …. Our results reveal that migrants' education has no significant impact on the likelihood of sending remittances …

approach we find that the strongest migration-related response in private education expenditure are substantially lower …, 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 …