How do Migration and Remittances Affect Human Capital Investment? The Effects of Relaxing Information and Liquidity Constraints

Acharya, Chakra Pani; Leon-Gonzalez, Roberto

doi:10.1080/00220388.2013.866224

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“…The effect on child labour is therefore ambiguous, especially in rural areas. Remittances can be used to purchase labour-saving equipment, possibly decreasing the reliance on child labour (Acharya & Leon-Gonzalez, 2014). Conversely, capital investments may require an increase in complementary inputs and notably in labour force recruited among family members.…”

Section: The Ambiguous Effect Of Remittancesmentioning

confidence: 98%

Remittance Effects on Child Labour: Evidence from Burkina Faso

Bargain

Boutin

2015

The Journal of Development Studies

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This article explores the effects of remittance receipt on child labour in an African context. We focus on Burkina Faso, a country with a high prevalence of child labour and a high rate of migration. Given the complex relationship between remittance receipt and household time allocation decisions, we instrument remittances using economic conditions in remittance-sending countries and explore heterogeneous effects across different types of potential remitters. While remittances have no significant effect on child labour on average, transfers reduce child labour in long-term migrant households, for whom the disruptive effect of migration is no longer felt. We find no gender difference but remittances seem to affect mainly the labour market participation of younger children.

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Section: The Ambiguous Effect Of Remittancesmentioning

confidence: 98%

Remittance Effects on Child Labour: Evidence from Burkina Faso

Bargain

Boutin

2015

The Journal of Development Studies

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“…On the one hand, labor off-farm employment may F I G U R E 1 Distribution of the sample counties and villages reduce rural households' forest input, and the main reason is that labor off-farm employment would lead to fewer household laborers engaging in the forest management, rural households would choose forest land rent-out; on the other hand, labor off-farm employment may promote forest input, and the main reason is that the remittances from off-farm work may promote cash expenditure and the technological progress may make up for the labor constraint caused by labor off-farm employment. It is also found that rural households tend to invest their off-farm income in children's education, housing, and other durables, rather than agricultural production (Acharya & Leon-Gonzalez, 2014;De Brauw & Rozelle, 2008). Because of the comparatively lower economic returns from forestry, the income from off-farm work is more difficult to realize in forestry (Xie, Zhu, Cao, Kang, & Du, 2019).…”

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Labor off‐farm employment and household forest management investment in Jiangxi, China: A perspective from gender influence of rural labor

Xie

Kang

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Natural Resource Modeling

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That numerous rural laborers migrate to urban areas to find off-farm jobs has become an outstanding economic phenomenon in China. To examine the impact of rural labor off-farm employment on household forest management, we built binary logistic models and Tobit models by applying a sample survey data of 500 households in rural Jiangxi in 2018. Households' participation and investment in forest management were measured by their labor and cash input. The results indicated that more off-farm laborers in household would hold back their participation in cash input. In contrast, a higher rate of female off-farm employment encouraged household monetary input. And households with more female agricultural laborers were more likely to participate in labor input. Neither off-farm employment nor female offfarm employment significantly influences households' labor input. Off-farm employment of the householder negatively influenced labor and cash input. Policy factors, such as obtaining forestry subsidies and forestry

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“…() provided evidence that remittances lead to a net shift from public to private schooling among children from non‐poor and urban areas in the Equator. In a similar vein, using panel household survey data from Nepal, Acharya and Leon‐Gonzalez () reported that children in the secondary school stage living in remittance‐receiving households are 2.7 per cent more likely to study in a private school than children living in non‐remittances receiving households. The effect is greater among children with an educated mother, and in non‐poor, medium‐ and large landholding rural households.…”

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International Remittances and Private Schooling: Evidence from Kerala, India

Valatheeswaran

Khan

2017

International Migration

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This study investigates the impact of international remittances on private school enrolment in Kerala. Using data from the 2010 Kerala Migration Survey and employing an instrumental variable (IV-Probit) approach to address the endogeneity of migration, we found that remittances have a positive and significant effect on private school enrolment. After disaggregating the sample into different heterogeneous groups, we found that remittances have greater effect on boys, children residing in rural areas, and those belonging to socially advantageous groups and from higher wealth quintile. Children from lower wealth quintile and belonging to socially disadvantageous groups are least affected by migration and remittances.

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How do Migration and Remittances Affect Human Capital Investment? The Effects of Relaxing Information and Liquidity Constraints

Cited by 60 publications

References 24 publications

Remittance Effects on Child Labour: Evidence from Burkina Faso

Remittance Effects on Child Labour: Evidence from Burkina Faso

Labor off‐farm employment and household forest management investment in Jiangxi, China: A perspective from gender influence of rural labor

International Remittances and Private Schooling: Evidence from Kerala, India

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