This study estimates the impact of migrants’ remittances on households’ spending decisions in Ecuador. Applying both … parametric and semiparametric techniques, we find strong evidence that remittances enhance expenditures on education, health, and …

that migrants and non-migrants are likely to differ in unobservable ways that also affect children's educational outcomes … dollars from U.S. migrant remittances appear to enable families to further educate their daughters. Thus, policymakers should …. -- migration ; father absence ; education ; gender …

that migrants and non-migrants are likely to differ in unobservable ways that also affect children's educational outcomes … dollars from U.S. migrant remittances appear to enable families to further educate their daughters. Thus, policymakers should …

migration on education, but the results are gender-specific, suggesting that pushing a father's U.S. migration earlier in his … suggest that the marginal dollars from remittances relax the household budget constraint and enable families to invest in …

This paper examines how gender equality influences difference in cognitive skills between genders. For closer …. Key findings obtained through regression estimation are: (1) decreased gender wage gap leads to girls exhibiting a reduced …

This paper examines the wage and job satisfaction effects of over-education and overskilling among migrants graduating … from EU-15 based universities in 2005. Female migrants with shorter durations of domicile were found to have a higher … likelihood of overskilling. Newly arrived migrants incurred wage penalties which were exacerbated by additional penalties …

This paper examines how gender equality influences difference in cognitive skills between genders. For closer …. Key findings obtained through regression estimation are: (1) decreased gender wage gap leads to girls exhibiting a reduced …

Independent Sample T-test and One-way ANOVA. Demographic factors include gender, age ranges and education level, family background …