choose the non-professional education track. Those who might have otherwise pursued higher, professional education may forgo … education since, they will be overqualified in the host country. This will have a long run affect. As time goes on, therefore …

investment in education because discrimination spurred exit facilitated by human capital. Theory moreover suggests that if exit …

lose education incentives (the prospect effect). On the other hand, parental migration provides remittances and facilitates …This paper examines the effect of labor migration on education investment in migrant-sending countries in negative … education investment (the remittance effect). Whether migration overall encourages or discourages education investment is …

motivated by economic reasons, they could affect the human capital accumulation of the children who follow their parents to the … urban areas increase education attainment by about 4.5 years by the time these individuals are adults. In addition, the … on education attainment and some health measures. In addition, our results can rule out any negative effect on health …

Estimation of the causal effect of parental migration on children's educational attainment is complicated by the fact … that migrants and non-migrants are likely to differ in unobservable ways that also affect children's educational outcomes … have no effect on the educational outcomes of children who are at least 20 because they have already completed their …

Estimation of the causal effect of parental migration on child education is complicated by the likelihood that factors … migration on education, but the results are gender-specific, suggesting that pushing a father's U.S. migration earlier in his …, suggesting that father absence does not play a major role in determining children's educational outcomes. Instead, these results …

of remittances on the human capital formation of school-age children. After correcting for selection bias and other … education, including financial literacy education, better monitoring of farm labor hours of school-age children, and targeted …Remittances from overseas can encourage human capital investment and improve educational outcomes in developing …

This article analyses the distributional impact of remittances across two regions of Algerian emigration (Nedroma and … Idjeur) using an original survey we conducted of 1,200 households in 2011. Remittances and especially the role played by … large as Nedroma. At the same time, they help reduce poverty by nearly 13 percentage points. Remittances have a strong …