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Public Education for the Children Left Behind

Camacho, Carmen - 2010

This paper examines the role of public education in the context of parental migration, and it studies the effects of an expansive income tax policy that is adopted to increase public education expenditure per pupil. It is shown that such a policy may exacerbate income inequality in the long run...

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What Happens to the Labour Supply and Schooling of the Children Left Behind by Temporary Migrants?

Booth, Alison L.; Tamura, Yuji - 2018

Using Vietnamese panel data, we investigate how a father's temporary migration is associated with the labour supply and human capital investment of his child left behind. Our analysis shows that a longer absence of a father is associated with more housework and less education of his son if the...

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Parental migration, family migration and human capital formation

Shimada, Akira - In: Korea and the world economy 15 (2014) 3, pp. 329-354

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Financial Support for Families with Children and Its Trade-Offs : Balancing Redistribution and Parental Work Incentives

Myck, Michal - 2013

Financial support for families with children implies inherent trade-offs some of which are less obvious than others. In … employment of their parents. We analyse several kinds of trade-offs involved using a careful selection of potential changes to … the system of financial support for families with children. We focus on: 1) the trade-off between redistribution of income …

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