How Migrant Heterogeneity Influences the Effect of Remittances on Educational Expenditure:Empirical Evidence from the Cambodian Socio-Economic Survey
How Migrant Heterogeneity Influences the Effect of Remittances on Educational Expenditure:Empirical Evidence from the Cambodian Socio-Economic Survey
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2014-08
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Masamune Iwasawa;M. Inada;S. Fukui
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作者：
Masamune Iwasawa;M. Inada;S. Fukui
这项研究探讨了汇款对儿童教育的影响，这取决于三种类型的移民：父母，非父母，没有移民。衡量汇款的影响具有挑战性，需要非常谨慎，因为汇款理论上的积极影响可能部分或全部被家庭成员移徙的不利影响所抵消。此外，这种负面影响的程度在很大程度上取决于移徙者的特点。具体来说，鉴于父母在子女教育中发挥着不可替代的作用，父母迁移不仅导致家庭劳动力短缺，也导致父母投入不足。为了克服衡量汇款影响的困难，我们从2009年柬埔寨社会经济调查中获得数据，该调查为三种自我选择的移民类型提供了足够的样本。估计每个子样本使我们能够将汇款的净影响与移徙的净影响区分开来，并根据移徙者特征的差异衡量汇款的影响。总体而言，估计数表明，汇款的积极影响在非父母移民中被部分抵消，在父母移民时则完全消失。
This study explores the effects of remittances on child education that depend on three types of migration: parental, non-parental, and no migration. Measuring the effects of remittances is challenging and demands great caution because their theoretical positive impacts can be partly or fully offset by the adverse influences of family members’ migration. The magnitude of this negative impact, furthermore, depends significantly on migrant characteristics. Specifically, given that parents play an irreplaceable role in their children’s education, parental migration not only leads to a labor shortage in the household but also results in insufficient parental input. To overcome the difficulties of measuring the effects of remittances, we derive data from the Cambodian Socio-Economic Survey in 2009, which provides a sufficient sample size for the three self-selected migration types. Estimating each subsample enables us to disentangle the net impact of remittances from that of migration and measure the influence of remittances given the differences in migrant characteristics. Overall, the estimates suggest that the positive effects of remittances are partially canceled out for non-parental migration and completely eliminated when parental migration occurs.