remittances serve as coping mechanisms. -- Migration ; remittances ; trans-national networks ; education ; child labour ; Ecuador … remittances on school enrolment and child work in Ecuador. Identification relies on instrumental variables, exploiting information … work activities, while remittances are used to finance education when households are faced with these shocks. This suggests …

remittances on school enrolment and child work in Ecuador. Identification relies on instrumental variables, exploiting information … work activities, while remittances are used to finance education when households are faced with these shocks. This suggests …Over the last decade Ecuador has experienced a strong increase in financial transfers from migrated workers, amounting …

children born at the beginning and the end of the year to identify the causal effect of education on migration at low levels of … combined with an exploration of maternal characteristics and a regression discontinuity design suggest that internal migration …

that aggregate shocks are associated with increased work activities, while remittances are used to finance education when …Over the last decade Ecuador has experienced a strong increase in financial transfers from migrated workers. This paper … investigates how remittances via trans-national networks affect human capital investments through relaxing resource constraints and …

also provides a novel microfoundation for peer effects, with empirical implications for welfare and different education …

that migration yields no additional payoffs. However, there is no evidence that households benefit from higher education if …Residents in rural China doubt the benefits from education, yet there is empirical evidence supporting positive effects … in urban and rural areas. This paper investigates whether education affects a variety of income attainment indicators for …

that migration yields no additional payoffs. However, there is no evidence that households benefit from higher education if …Residents in rural China doubt the benefits from education, yet there is empirical evidence supporting positive effects … in urban and rural areas. This paper investigates whether education affects a variety of income attainment indicators for …