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This paper explores the impact of international migration on school enrollment of children staying behind in Tajikistan …. Counterfactual situations are constructed for children belonging to households with and without migrants, remittance receiving and … nonreceiving households, and households with migrant parents to single out the impact of migration and remittances. The results …
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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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This paper investigates whether unconditional cash transfers can keep refugee children in school and out of work. We … and female refugee children. Being a beneficiary household reduces the fraction of children working from 14.0 percent to 1 ….6 percent (a decrease of 88 percent) and the fraction of children aged 6-17 not in school from 36.2 to 13.7 percent (a reduction …
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This paper investigates whether unconditional cash transfers can keep refugee children in school and out of work. We … and female refugee children. Being a beneficiary household reduces the fraction of children working from 14.0 percent to 1 ….6 percent (a decrease of 88 percent) and the fraction of children aged 6-17 not in school from 36.2 to 13.7 percent (a reduction …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012584050
In this paper, we focus on the use of remittances to school children remaining in migrant communities in Haiti. After … addressing the endogeneity of remittance receipt, we find that remittances raise school attendance for all children in some … remittances by the household lifts budget constraints and raises the children's likelihood of being schooled, the disruptive …
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This paper examines the macroeconomic determinants of migrants' remittances dynamics. The study uses panel VAR methods … are an important factor explaining remittances dynamics, while home economic conditions do not have a significant … influence on remittances. …
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for the household sector? Can we capture the relevant impact of the remittances on the education level in Egypt? The … purpose of this study is to examine the impact of remittances on the level of educational attainment of children between ages … phenomenon among Egyptians and remittances can play an important role in alleviating household budget constraints. How do …
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remittances to LAC, as well as their costs and benefits. For the home country, the negative impact from emigration on labor … resources and productivity seems to outweigh growth gains from remittances, notably for the Caribbean. However, given emigration …
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working and education. I look at the empirical relationship between working and educational expenditure budget shares for … children age 5-14 in Mexico. I accomplish this using a household fixed effects model and data from two waves of the Mexican … Family Life Survey (MxFLS). The results indicate that working increases school expenditure shares for working children. In …
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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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