increase schooling and reduce child labour. Although international remittances are found to have a stronger beneficial impact …

matter of concern in the region. We study this issue for Uganda, investigating whether the migration of household members … migration of children has a significant positive impact on child school attendance rates while that of adults has a … significantly negative effect, and that remittances have no influence. These findings suggest that migration of children is indeed …

the impact of female-headship on children's schooling. Female householdheads in Matlab fall into two broad groups: widows … of female-headship. Results indicate that children residing in households headed by married women have stronger schooling …

children who do not belong to the ruling caste, migration is a social mobility factor that is enhanced by formal schooling …The paper aims at studying determinants of schooling in traditional hierarchical societies confronted with an …

migration over human development in Bolivia. Three issues frame these effects. First, twenty five years of rural to urban … migration have transformed the demographic profile of Bolivian society. The new middle third is younger, more bilingual and … rural areas, controlling for age, ethnicity, and years of schooling. Two caveats dampen this place premium effect: schooling …

This paper investigates the presence of a network externality which might explain the persistence of low schooling … networks. We test empirically whether young migrants�schooling decisions are affected by the presence of covillagers at … destination, using data on life-time histories of migration and education choices from a rural region of Thailand. Different …

migration over human development in Bolivia. Three issues frame these effects. First, twenty five years of rural to urban … migration have transformed the demographic profile of Bolivian society. The new middle third is younger, more bilingual and … rural areas, controlling for age, ethnicity, and years of schooling. Two caveats dampen this place premium effect: schooling …