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Diaspora externalities : a view from the South

Rapoport, Hillel - 2018

Migration decisions affect those left-behind in ways that are partly taken into account by market forces (e.g., wage effects on labour markets) and for the most part these can be seen as pure externalities. Diasporas are an example of such an externality. This paper reviews the recent economic...

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Does migration affect education of girls and young women in Tajikistan?

Gatskova, Kseniia; Ivlevs, Artjoms; Dietz, Barbara - 2017

remittances. In contrast, school attendance of teenage girls (ages 12-17) falls when siblings migrate, while parental migration … and remittances have no effect. Having a grandmother as the head of household after parents (typically fathers) migrate … that in localities where the share of migrants is already high, an increase in the share of migrant households is …

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Self-selection of Mexican migrants in the presence of random shocks : evidence from the Panic of 1907

Escamilla-Guerrero, David; Lopez-Alonso, Moramay - 2019

impact of random shocks on short-run shifts in selection into migration. The results suggest that the first Mexican migrants … crisis, migrants were positively selected relative to the military elite of the time. During the crisis, migrants became …

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Involuntary migration, inequality, and integration : national and subnational influences

Gisselquist, Rachel M. - 2019

pays particular attention to involuntary migrants who fled conflict in their home regions beginning in the 1970s. The paper …

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Does connectivity reduce gender gaps in offfarm employment? : evidence from 12 low- and middle-income countries

Egger, Eva-Maria; Arslan, Aslıhan; Zucchini, Emanuele - 2021

Gender gaps in labour force participation in developing countries persist despite income growth or structural change. We assess this persistence across economic geographies within countries, focusing on youth employment in off-farm wage jobs. We combine household survey data from 12 low- and...

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Spatial consumption inequality in Mozambique

Gradín, Carlos - 2024

In this paper, I show that the trend in spatial inequality in Mozambique almost entirely explains the outstanding surge in inequality in the country over the past decade, as well as its decline immediately after the pandemic, in contrast to its secondary role in the earliest years. For this...

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On the fertility transition in Africa : income, child mortality, or education?

Mveyange, Anthony - 2015

A consensus among social scientists is that fertility rates in Africa are declining. What determines these declines? I present fresh evidence that shows education, especially for women, is an important determinant of the fertility transition in Africa. This finding is consistent with the...

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Gender-based violence and gender bias in schooling decision : evidence from sub-Saharan Africa

Koissy-Kpein, Sandrine A. - 2015

This paper examines the impact of gender based violence against women and girls (GBV), in the environment the children live in, on school attendance, school achievement, as well as boys' and girls' dropouts. Based on the sixth phase of the Demographic and Health Surveys from 18 sub-Saharan...

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Gender, age cohort, and household investment in child schooling : new evidence from sub-Saharan Africa

Iddrisu, Abdul Malik; Danquah, Michael; Barimah, Alfred; … - 2020

Sub-Saharan Africa continues to post one of the highest gender gaps in educational outcomes in the world. Gender gaps in educational outcomes might be attributed to an uneven allocation of household resources towards the schooling of boys and girls. In this paper, we interrogate this issue using...

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The role of social assistance in African crises : a systematic literature review

Hirvonen, Kalle; Justino, Patricia; Oliveira, Rodrigo … - 2024

This systematic review examines the effectiveness of social assistance programmes in protecting households in Africa-a region highly vulnerable to climate change, conflict, and other shocks-during periods of crisis. Despite the significant increase in the number of these programmes over the past...

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