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are for rural females. For children in wealthier households, the effects of remittances are either negative or non … on schooling for non-migrant households that receive remittances and no effects for children living in households where …We exploit the size of the 2010 Ecuadorian Census to estimate the effect of remittances on secondary school enrollment …
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household members migrating internally) have a greater impact on education than do external remittances. We posit that this may … indicators has emerged as remittances to developing countries have risen substantially over the past decade. If remittances … capital investment, remittances may serve as a vehicle for growth. In this paper, we use the 2010 Nepal Living Standards …
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improving health of disadvantaged children. This paper studies the program's potential longer-term consequences for the poverty … and inequality of these children. It adapts methods developed in DiNardo, Fortin and Lemieux (1996) and incorporates …
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Remittances are an important source of external resources for developing countries. These transfers may increase the … remittances on different import categories. A panel VAR was estimated using data from eight Latin-American economies during the … 1991 to 2004 period. The impulse response functions show that remittances increase imports of capital, consumption, and …
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Remittances are an important source of external resources for developing countries. These transfers may increase the … remittances on different import categories. A panel VAR was estimated using data from eight Latin-American economies during the … 1991 to 2004 period. The impulse response functions show that remittances increase imports of capital, consumption, and …
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The economic wellbeing of a large number of rural Kosovar families depends heavily on migrants' remittances. This paper … Propensity Score Matching. We find that remittances have no impact on the extremely poor, but lift around 40% of migrant … as education play a role in how migrant households climb up the income ladder. …
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Factors shaping international migration, over the last half century, from and into the countries and territories of sub-Saharan and North Africa, as well as the economic and some social implications of those movements, are examined. Existing analyses of these issues are critically reviewed,...
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