We exploit the size of the 2010 Ecuadorian Census to estimate the effect of remittances on
secondary school enrollment across four key dimensions: gender, household wealth, rural …

Executive summary Children migrate with their families and independently. According to the
most recent global estimates, the total number of child migrants is approximately 31 million …

Scholars dedicated to exploring the effects of migration on children left behind are
commonly interested in human capital outcomes such as education. However, when …

The objective of this paper is to study school choice as a deliberate joint parental decision.
This decision is affected by the underlying preferences of the husband and wife. We use …

Leave no one behind. This is among the most aspirational global commitments of the United
Nations 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development. Migration and displacement are two …

Abstract The Sustainable Development Goals (SDG), especially goal 10, target migration
and remittances as a tool to reduce within and between country inequalities. In the light of …

Nearly one quarter of El Salvador's population resides abroad as a result of historically high
levels of violence, which have led to increasing family disintegration and many children …

This study investigates the short-run effect of paternal absence due to circular migration on
the socio-emotional skills of their children left behind. To address the endogeneity of the …

In contrast to the heavily studied South-North migration of Latin Americans to the United
States, this investigation assesses the lesser-studied influence of South-South labor …

There is much evidence that migration of a parent affects the educational performance of
children left behind (CLB). Nevertheless, there is no agreement on the direction of the …