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Channeling Remittances to Education: A Field Experiment among Migrants from El Salvador

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Publikašuvnnas:American Economic Journal. Applied Economics vol. 7, no. 2 (Apr 2015), p. 207-232
Váldodahkki: Ambler, Kate
Eará dahkkit: Aycinena, Diego, Yang, Dean
Almmustuhtton:
American Economic Association
Fáttát:
El Salvador
Students
Expenditures
Households
Statistical analysis
Migrant workers
Beneficiaries
Development banks
Developing countries > LDCs
Remittances
Labor supply
Economics
Private schools
Experiments
Education
Migrants
School attendance
Payments
Transnationalism
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Abstrákta:We implement a randomized experiment offering Salvadoran migrants matching funds for educational remittances, which are channeled directly to a beneficiary student in El Salvador chosen by the migrant. The matches lead to increased educational expenditures, higher private school attendance, and lower labor supply of youths in El Salvador households connected to migrant study participants. We find substantial "crowd-in" of educational investments: for each $1 received by beneficiaries, educational expenditures increase by $3.72. We find no shifting of expenditures away from other students, and no effect on remittances. (JEL F24, I21, I22, J13, O15, O19)
ISSN:1945-7782
1945-7790
DOI:10.1257/app.20140010
Gáldu:ABI/INFORM Global