Remittances, Schooling, and Child Labor

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  • Quentin Wodon
چکیده

Financial transfers from relatives can have a large impact on the consumption choices made by households. We develop a Stackelbergtype model wherein the parent who remained at the home location decides on the level of education the child acquires depending on the migrant’s remittances and other sources of income. In a repeated game we find equilibria in which the effect of an increase in the remittances has a larger effect on schooling than an increase in other source of income. We test the empirical implications of this model using data from the Republic of Congo.

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تاریخ انتشار 2007