difference, international trade, remittances, and a heterogeneous workforce. We compare welfare under the observed levels of … flows -- such as Jamaica or El Salvador -- are also better off due to migration, but for a different reason: remittances … about 10% in countries with large incoming remittances. Our results are robust to accounting for imperfect transferability …

affects children left behind in terms of their school attendance, household expenditures on education, and nonhousework labor … supply in the 1990s. The estimating subsample is children aged 7-18 in households in which both parents usually coreside and … is not affected. We find no evidence that paternal temporary absence influences his children in terms of school …

affects children left behind in terms of their school attendance, household expenditures on education, and nonhousework labour … supply in the 1990s. The estimating subsample is children aged 7-18 in households in which both parents usually coreside and … supply is not affected. We find no evidence that paternal temporary absence influences his children in terms of school …

migrants' average education even if one allows for endogenous schooling decisions and education policies at origin. Still, more …