Arbeitspapier
Remittances, schooling, and child labor in Mexico
This paper studies the effects of remittances from the U.S. on child labor and school attendance in recipient Mexican households. We identify these effects using the impact of the 2008-2009 U.S. recession on remittance receipts. The methodology employed is a differences-in-differences strategy that compares households that were remittance recipients before the crisis with never-recipient households. To avoid possible selection problems, we instrument for membership in the remittance recipient group. We find that the negative shock on remittance receipts caused a significant increase in child labor and a significant reduction of school attendance.
- Sprache
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Englisch
- Erschienen in
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Series: Working Papers ; No. 2010-14
- Klassifikation
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Wirtschaft
Agricultural Labor Markets
Labor Standards: Working Conditions
Economic Development: Human Resources; Human Development; Income Distribution; Migration
- Thema
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Child labor
International migration
Remittances
Mexico
Rücküberweisungen
Kinderarbeit
Schulbesuch
Mexiko
USA
- Ereignis
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Geistige Schöpfung
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Alcaraz, Carlo
Chiquiar, Daniel
Salcedo, Alejandrina
- Ereignis
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Veröffentlichung
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Banco de México
- (wo)
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Ciudad de México
- (wann)
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2010
- Handle
- Letzte Aktualisierung
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10.03.2025, 11:42 MEZ
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Objekttyp
- Arbeitspapier
Beteiligte
- Alcaraz, Carlo
- Chiquiar, Daniel
- Salcedo, Alejandrina
- Banco de México
Entstanden
- 2010