Remittances, schooling, and child labor in Mexico
Remittances, schooling, and child labor in Mexico
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DOI：
10.1016/j.jdeveco.2010.11.004
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发表时间：
2012
影响因子：
5
通讯作者：
Carlo Alcaraz;Daniel Chiquiar;Alejandrina Salcedo
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作者：
Carlo Alcaraz;Daniel Chiquiar;Alejandrina Salcedo
本文研究了来自美国的汇款对接收墨西哥家庭的童工和入学率的影响。我们利用 2008-2009 年美国经济衰退对汇款收入的影响来确定这些影响。采用的方法是双重差异策略，将危机前接受汇款的家庭与从未接受过汇款的家庭进行比较。为了避免可能出现的选择问题，我们对汇款接收者组中的成员资格进行了检测。我们发现，汇款收入的负面冲击导致童工大幅增加和入学率大幅下降。
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.