. -- migration ; father absence ; education ; gender … experience. The results point to a statistically significant positive effect of paternal U.S. migration on education for girls …Estimation of the causal effect of parental migration on children's educational attainment is complicated by the fact …

experience. The results point to a statistically significant positive effect of paternal U.S. migration on education for girls …Estimation of the causal effect of parental migration on children's educational attainment is complicated by the fact … siblings' ages at the time of parental migration. The basic assumption underlying the analysis is that parental migration will …

migration on education, but the results are gender-specific, suggesting that pushing a father's U.S. migration earlier in his …Estimation of the causal effect of parental migration on child education is complicated by the likelihood that factors … influencing parental migration also affect child educational attainment. This paper exploits variation in siblings' ages at the …

experience. The results point to a statistically significant positive effect of paternal U.S. migration on education for girls …Estimation of the causal effect of parental migration on children's educational attainment is complicated by the fact … siblings' ages at the time of parental migration. The basic assumption underlying the analysis is that parental migration will …

This paper explores the immediate effects of a father's U.S. migration on his children's schooling and work outcomes in … Mexico. To get around the endogeneity of paternal migration, I use individual fixed effects and IV estimation where the ….S. migration. Decomposing the sample into sex- and age-specific groups shows that the main group driving these results are 12 …

The growing gender gap in educational attainment between men and women has raised concerns that the skill development … produces a similar pattern of results. We conclude that focusing on gender differences in behavior in school may not lead to …

We develop a theoretical model regarding the migration of dual-earner couples and test it in the context of … international migration. Our model predicts that the probability that a couple emigrates increases with the income of the primary …

We present a theory on migration of dual-earner couples and test it in the context of international migration. Our …-wide Danish administrative data from 1982 to 2010. We analyze migration decisions separately for couples in which men earned more …. College education of either partner makes couples more, and having children makes couples less mobile. Power couples are most …

children’s education. Second, it is tested if migration of men from households reduces gender inequality in households …’ expenditures on children’s education. This gendered distribution is analyzed by estimating the effect of migration on the share of … households’ education expenditures spent on girls. Migration can affect these expenditures and its gendered distribution through …

Two of the most salient trends surrounding the issue of migration and development over the last two decades are the … large rise in remittances, and an increased flow of skilled migration. However, recent literature based on cross …-country regressions has claimed that more educated migrants remit less, leading to concerns that further increases in skilled migration …