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Remittances to Latin America from Migrants in the United States : Assessing the Impact of Amnesty Programs
Amuedo-Dorantes, Catalina - 2014
the volume of remittances to the Latin American region. This paper studies how a generalized amnesty - a provision in the … country of origin, we estimate substantial post-legalization drops in remittances sent home by Mexican-born migrants who … legalized through IRCA. Given the potential positive impact of remittances on investment levels, entrepreneurship rates and the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013070915
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Remittances to Latin America from migrants in the United States : assessing the impact of amnesty programs
Amuedo Dorantes, Catalina; Mazzolari, Francesca - 2009
the volume of remittances to the Latin American region. This paper studies how a generalized amnesty - a provision in the … country of origin, we estimate substantial post-legalization drops in remittances sent home by Mexican-born migrants who … legalized through IRCA. Given the potential positive impact of remittances on investment levels, entrepreneurship rates and the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003879352
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Gender, educational attainment, and the impact of parental migration on children left behind
Antman, Francisca M. - 2012
Estimation of the causal effect of parental migration on children's educational attainment is complicated by the fact … that migrants and non-migrants are likely to differ in unobservable ways that also affect children's educational outcomes … have no effect on the educational outcomes of children who are at least 20 because they have already completed their …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009548641
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Remittances, schooling, and child labor in Mexico
Alcaraz, Carlo; Chiquiar, Daniel; Salcedo, Alejandrina - 2010
This paper studies the effects of remittances from the U.S. on child labor and school attendance in recipient Mexican … significant reduction of school attendance. -- Child labor ; International migration ; Remittances ; Mexico. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008737115
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The impact of US regional business cycles on remittances to Latin America
Bernard, Kristin Magnusson - 2009
estimation of these linkages is also shown to matter for gauging the sensitivity of remittances to economic conditions in the … home country, and hence the extent to which remittances might buffer domestic shocks as well as transmitting external ones …. -- Remittances ; Business Cycles ; Central America ; Mexico ; United States …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003806256
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Toxic test scores : the impact of chemical releases on standardized test performance within US schools
Jacqz, Irene - In: Journal of environmental economics and management : … 115 (2022), pp. 1-18
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013410660
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Understanding the mechanisms through which an influential early childhood program boosted adult outcomes
Heckman, James J.; Pinto, Rodrigo; Savelyev, Peter - 2012
A growing literature establishes that high quality early childhood interventions targeted toward disadvantaged children …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009675522
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The legacies of slavery in and out of Africa
Bertocchi, Graziella - 2015
The slave trades out of Africa represent one of the most significant forced migration experiences in history. In this paper I illustrate their long-term consequences. I first consider the influence of the slave trade on the "sending" countries in Africa, with attention to their economic,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011283184
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The legacies of slavery in and out of Africa
Bertocchi, Graziella - In: IZA journal of migration : IZAJOM 5 (2016) 24, pp. 1-19
The slave trades out of Africa represent one of the most significant forced migration experiences in history. In this paper, I illustrate their long-term consequences on contemporaneous socio-economic outcomes, drawing from my own previous work on the topic and from an extensive review of the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011619155
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Can increased education help reduce the political opportunity gap?
Lindgren, Karl-Oskar; Oskarsson, Sven; Persson, Mikael - 2017
compared to persons from high-status families. This paper examines whether reforms in education can help to reduce the socio …) changes in the resources allocated to education between different socio-economic groups (reform effects) and (b) changes in … return which relate to the impact of education on turnout in different groups. We use this framework to analyze a reform of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011697398