We study how migration affects education of girls in Tajikistan - the poorest post-Soviet state and one of the most … 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 …

This paper investigates the impact of remittances on health outcomes in Tajikistan and finds a positive effect. While … existing literature shows that remittances increase health care expenditure, expenditure alone is an incomplete proxy for … significant share of the population. Our study explores the impact of remittances on proxies of health outcomes beyond expenditure …

wage distribution in the destination country either from the size of remittances or directly from migrants. If their … estimations to Tajikistan’s data, as well as with controlling for an endogeneity issue with the variable of interest, we estimate …

Tajikistan is the country with the largest share of remittances to GDP in the world. At the same time it suffers from …

the analysis of the effects of paternal migration and remittances on the children left behind. First, it can give rise to …