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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 …
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Migration and families left behind : families that stay behind when a member migrates do not clearly benefit
Démurger, Sylvie - 2015
behind through remittances. However, splitting up families in this way may also have multiple adverse effects on education …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011430776
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Financial education for migrants and their families
Atkinson, Adele; Messy, Flore-Anne - 2015
Money remitted by international migrants is a major source of income for many countries around the world, exceeding all international development funds combined. Yet individual migrants and their families are often amongst the most vulnerable people in society, and many face significant barriers...
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The impact of migration on family left behind : estimation in presence of intra-household selection of migrants
Murard, Elie - 2019
This paper reexamines the literature on the impact of migration on household members left behind at origin. The empirical problem previous studies address is the self-selection of households into migration, i.e. the endogenous decision as to whether or not send a migrant. Yet, the subsequent...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011974338
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Migration and the Mexican family : exploring the consequences for those left behind
Antman, Francisca M. - 2007
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Gender, educational attainment, and the impact of parental migration on children left behind
Antman, Francisca M. - In: Journal of population economics 25 (2012) 4, pp. 1187-1214
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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 …
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The Impact of the 1996 US Immigration Policy Reform (IIRIRA) on Mexican Migrants' Remittances
Vaira-Lucero, Matias - 2012
' motivations are not only altruistic but also self-interested. Given that migrants' remittances and their savings are important …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013106294
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The impact of the 1996 US Immigration Policy Reform (IIRIRA) on Mexican migrants' remittances
Vaira Lucero, Matias; Nahm, Daehoon; Tani, Massimiliano - 2012
' motivations are not only altruistic but also self-interested. Given that migrants' remittances and their savings are important … home security aspects that often dominate discussions about illegal migration. -- remittances ; legal status ; uncertainty …
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The impact of family size and sibling structure on the great Mexico-U.S. migration
Bratti, Massimiliano; Fiore, Simona; Mendola, Mariapia - 2019
We investigate how fertility and demographic factors affect migration at the household level by assessing the causal effects of sibship size and structure on offspring's international migration. We use a rich demographic survey on the population of Mexico and exploit presumably exogenous...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012149253