TY  - BOOK
AU  - Edwards,Alejandra Cox
AU  - Ureta,Manuelita
ED  - National Bureau of Economic Research.
TI  - International Migration, Remittances, and Schooling: Evidence from El Salvador 
T2  - NBER working paper series
PY  - 2003///
CY  - Cambridge, Mass.
PB  - National Bureau of Economic Research
N1  - June 2003; Hardcopy version available to institutional subscribers
N2  - We examine the effect of remittances from abroad on households' schooling decisions using data for El Salvador.  Following the massive war-related emigration of the 1980's, remittances became a significant source of household income throughout the 1990's. We use the Cox proportional hazard model to examine the determinants of school attendance.  Measuring income from a source that is uncorrelated with parental schooling  remittances , we find that remittances have a large, significant effect on school retention.  We estimate that while household income net of remittances has a small, though significant, impact on the hazard of leaving school in rural and urban areas, remittances have a much larger impact on the hazard of leaving school.  In urban areas, the effect of remittances is, at its smallest, 10 times the size of the effect of other income.  In rural areas, the effect of remittances is about 2.6 times that of other income. Our finding is of interest in that it suggests that subsidizing school attendance, particularly in poor areas, may have a large impact on school attendance and retention, even if parents have low levels of schooling
UR  - https://www.nber.org/papers/w9766
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.3386/w9766
ER  -