Accounting for Remittance and Migration Effects on Children's Schooling

被引:106
作者
Amuedo-Dorantes, Catalina [1 ]
Pozo, Susan [2 ]
机构
[1] San Diego State Univ, San Diego, CA 92182 USA
[2] Western Michigan Univ, Kalamazoo, MI 49008 USA
关键词
Latin America; Dominican Republic; school attendance; remittances; migration; INSTRUMENTAL VARIABLES; LABOR;
D O I
10.1016/j.worlddev.2010.05.008
中图分类号
F0 [经济学]; F1 [世界各国经济概况、经济史、经济地理]; C [社会科学总论];
学科分类号
0201 ; 020105 ; 03 ; 0303 ;
摘要
We examine the impact of remittances on children s school attendance in the Dominican Republic To isolate the effect of remittances from the effect of sometimes concurrent household out migration we focus on children in households without members currently residing in the United States While girls school attendance rises with the receipt of remittances secondary school age children and younger siblings are the ones who most decidedly gain from remittances Additionally we find that migration negatively impacts the school attendance of children as It eliminates the positive effect of remittances when we expand the sample to include children in house holds with members residing abroad (C) 2010 Elsevier Ltd All rights reserved
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页码:1747 / 1759
页数:13
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