, allowing more consumption and investment. In particular, remittances can afford investing in children's human capital, a key …The objective of this paper is to present microeconomic evidence on the economic effects of international remittances … on households' spending decisions. Remittances can increase the household budget and reduce liquidity constraint problems …

other things, the significance of the level of migration, the education level of migrants, and financial sector development … in determining remittances. Given the potential endogeneity problems, the migration and financial development variables … controlling for the endogeneity bias through instrumental variable estimation. The authors also find that the education level of …

of remittances sent back by migrants to their families of origin. In agricultural settings, where those left behind are … very young children are particularly vulnerable to shocks that lead to growth faltering, with substantial long-term health …

The impact of macroeconomic crises on parents' investments in the human capital of their children is a widely contested … employment decisions made by urban school-age children. He arrives at two basic findings: First, the crisis had no effect on the … attendance rates of school-age children. But the share of children who were both employed and in school fell significantly during …

The author uses the Ecuador Living Standards and Measurement Surveys (LSMS 1998 and 1999) to analyze the … implications for the children, while it is less effective in urban areas …

the Bono de Desarrollo Humano (BDH), a cash transfer program, on enrollment and child work among poor children in Ecuador … requirement that households enroll their children in school. This paper uses a randomized study design to analyze the impact of … enforced or monitored in Ecuador, helps explain the magnitude of program effects. …

This paper explores the impact of remittances on poverty, education, and health in 11 Latin American countries using … remittances flows with respect to GDP. While remittances tend to have positive effects on education and health, this impact is … following: (1) regardless of the counterfactual used remittances appear to lower poverty levels in most recipient countries; (2 …

socioeconomic characteristics, in particular wealth and parental education, are "protective"-children from wealthier households with … parenting quality in a developing country. They use a sample of over 3,000 predominantly poor pre-school age children from … Ecuador and analyze determinants of their scores on the Spanish version of the Peabody Picture Vocabulary Test (TVIP), a …

to broader policy discussion to mitigate the impact of crises on children's education. … children's school enrollment and labor. The causal identification relies on geographical variations in the price of food (wheat … poor girls. The results also show that children in households with access to agricultural land are not affected by higher …

remittances as well as an increase in labor income, although income from capital might decline. Second, in a hypothetical scenario … differentials with high-income countries, South-South migrants make substantial contributions to remittances …