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
Englisch

Erschienen in
Series: Working Papers ; No. 2010-14

Klassifikation
Wirtschaft
Agricultural Labor Markets
Labor Standards: Working Conditions
Economic Development: Human Resources; Human Development; Income Distribution; Migration
Thema
Child labor
International migration
Remittances
Mexico
Rücküberweisungen
Kinderarbeit
Schulbesuch
Mexiko
USA

Ereignis
Geistige Schöpfung
(wer)
Alcaraz, Carlo
Chiquiar, Daniel
Salcedo, Alejandrina
Ereignis
Veröffentlichung
(wer)
Banco de México
(wo)
Ciudad de México
(wann)
2010

Handle
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Objekttyp

  • Arbeitspapier

Beteiligte

  • Alcaraz, Carlo
  • Chiquiar, Daniel
  • Salcedo, Alejandrina
  • Banco de México

Entstanden

  • 2010

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