various channels. Men's migration may lead to women taking over household decisions regarding education expenditures … changes in women's decision making is expected to operate via permanent migration when the men are absent. The effect of … remittances has been further separated from the effect of migration. The paper uses longitudinal data from rural households in …

remittances. In contrast, school attendance of teenage girls (ages 12-17) falls when siblings migrate, while parental migration …' schooling turns from positive to negative with girls' age; this implies that migration may be detrimental to women’s empowerment …We study how migration affects education of girls in Tajikistan - the poorest post-Soviet state and one of the most …

remittances. We find consistent evidence that male migration increases female self-determination and decision-making power, and … that migration of husbands offers an opportunity for women to become more autonomous in traditional societies. Furthermore …This paper investigates the impact of migration of male household heads on the autonomy of their spouses. Using panel …

This is the first global study of how institutionally entrenched gender discrimination affects the gender migration gap … derived from a random utility maximization model of migration that accounts for migrants' gender. Instrumental variable …

-family transfers and education. We highlight an education motive for remittances, according to which migrants have an incentive to … constraints are binding and education is fostered by migrant remittances. We test these hypotheses on Indian panel data …. Identification is based on within variation in household composition. We find that remittances received from migrants significantly …