International migration, remittances, and the human capital formation of Egyptian children

Koska, Onur A.; Saygin, Perihan; Çağatay, Selim; Artal-Tur, Andrés

doi:10.1016/j.iref.2013.05.006

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“…One method of correcting a trade deficit is to trigger private savings and channel it towards domestic investment to widen the pool of domestically manufactured products. Remittances can be a catalyst for private savings and per capita income (Koska et al 2013;Anwar and Cooray, 2015;Drinkwater et al, 2003). The literature identifies two channels through which remittances affect the receiving countries' trade balance: the exchange rate and the savings channels.…”

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How does the flow of remittances affect the trade balance of the Middle East and North Africa?

Farzanegan

Hassan

2019

Journal of Economic Policy Reform

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Middle Eastern and North African (MENA) economies have had the highest degree of dependency on received remittances worldwide over the last three decades. The region has also had the highest non-oil external trade balance deficit among developing countries. We examine the role of remittances in the trade balance of 11 labor-abundant MENA countries. Our panel regression analysis shows that the inflow of remittances has had an increasing effect on trade deficits by triggering import-led consumption expenditures. The results are robust after controlling for other drivers of trade deficit and fixed effects.

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How does the flow of remittances affect the trade balance of the Middle East and North Africa?

Farzanegan

Hassan

2019

Journal of Economic Policy Reform

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“…Parent's education in the household is an important factor positively affecting the educational attainment of children. Moreover, after dividing the age groups, remittances are found not to be significant on the educational attainment of school aged children (6)(7)(8)(9)(10)(11)(12)(13)(14)(15)(16)). On the other hand, it was shown to be significant and positively affecting university aged youth (17-21).…”

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“…These are first the full sample including all children aged 6-21. This is then divided into two different sub groups, school aged children (6)(7)(8)(9)(10)(11)(12)(13)(14)(15)(16) and university aged youth (17-21). In the school-aged sub group, we excluded all educational attainment levels higher than the secondary school as none of the individuals lying in this age group would have a higher educational attainment level.…”

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The Impact of Remittances on Children’s Educational Attainment: Evidence from Egypt

Sami¹,

El-Aziz²

2018

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People often migrate in order to improve their family's standard of living. International migration is a widespread phenomenon among Egyptians and remittances can play an important role in alleviating household budget constraints. How do Egyptians invest their income received from remittances? Do remittances act as a significant tool to relax budget constraints for the household sector? Can we capture a relevant impact of the remittances on the education level in Egypt? The purpose of this study is to examine the impact of remittances on the level of educational attainment of children between ages 6-21 in Egypt. We distinguish this impact among two categories of individuals according to their age: the school aged individuals and the university aged persons. Two important contributions can be highlighted from our study: First, to the authors' knowledge, this is the first study that provides information on how do people invest their income received from remittances in Egypt, especially after the 25 th of January revolution. Second, it measures the impact of remittances on educational attainment rather than school enrollment rates, as adopted in the previous studies. Using the latest available dataset on Egypt that includes detailed information on households' socioeconomic background and migration, the Egypt Labor Market Panel Survey (ELMPS, 2012), we imply an Ordered Probit Model using an Instrumental Variable (IV) approach to estimate the impact of remittance receipt on educational attainment. Findings show that remittances relax budget constraints positively impacting the educational attainment of university-aged youth. However, empirical results do not find any impact of remittances the school-aged individuals.

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“…The four studies that are found on Egypt are Elbadawy and Roushdy (2010), Assaad (2008, 2011), and Koska et al (2013). Elbadawy and Roushdy (2010) address the family disruption effect of migration in Egypt by including a binary variable that indicates whether or not the child lives in a household that has a migrant member who migrated within the last five years; they found no statistically significant impacts on school attendance.…”

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“…Binzel and Assaad (2008, 2011) address similar questions in Egypt, but their findings are quite mixed. Koska et al (2013) in general found some evidence of a positive impact of remittances on child schooling, but family disruption can become true if both parents are absent as migrants. In addition, the age that people start work in Egypt is observed to increase with the effect of remittances; however, this result is statistically stronger for males.…”

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Remittances Impacts on Schooling in Jordan: Analyses With Respect to Migrant Destination

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The two channels that explain how migration of a household member affects human capital formation of those left-behind are income and family disruption effects. In this study, remittances and migration impacts on human capital formation in Jordan is researched with respect to preferred migrant destinations and to the originating governorates of migrants. Jordan’s Labour Market Panel Survey-2010 is used to carry out the analyses. Remittances are found to have a positive impact on “schooling”, and findings do not change significantly across households with respect to the host country. There is no solid evidence of family disruption, except in households where both parents are absent; however, this is limited with those who have chosen Arab countries as the host. Heterogeneity in the education level of migrants from different governorates does not play a significant role that effects a schooling decision, except for Mafraq.

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International migration, remittances, and the human capital formation of Egyptian children

Cited by 29 publications

References 33 publications

How does the flow of remittances affect the trade balance of the Middle East and North Africa?

How does the flow of remittances affect the trade balance of the Middle East and North Africa?

The Impact of Remittances on Children’s Educational Attainment: Evidence from Egypt

Remittances Impacts on Schooling in Jordan: Analyses With Respect to Migrant Destination

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