Remittances, schooling, and child labor in Mexico

• 成果类型: Article
• 署名作者: Alcaraz, Carlo; Chiquiar, Daniel; Salcedo, Alejandrina
• 署名单位: Bank of Mexico
• 刊物名称: JOURNAL OF DEVELOPMENT ECONOMICS
• ISSN/ISSBN: 0304-3878
• DOI: 10.1016/j.jdeveco.2010.11.004
• 发表日期: 2012
• 页码: 156-165
• 关键词: child labor; international migration; remittances; Mexico

摘要

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. (C) 2010 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.