Channeling Remittances to Education: A Field Experiment among Migrants from El Salvador

• 成果类型: Article
• 署名作者: Ambler, Kate; Aycinena, Diego; Yang, Dean
• 署名单位: CGIAR; International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI); University of Michigan System; University of Michigan; University of Michigan System; University of Michigan; National Bureau of Economic Research
• 刊物名称: AMERICAN ECONOMIC JOURNAL-APPLIED ECONOMICS
• ISSN/ISSBN: 1945-7782
• DOI: 10.1257/app.20140010
• 发表日期: 2015
• 页码: 207-232
• 关键词: progresa; IMPACT; cash; subsidies

摘要

We implement a randomized experiment offering Salvadoran migrants matching funds for educational remittances, which are channeled directly to a beneficiary student in El Salvador chosen by the migrant. The matches lead to increased educational expenditures, higher private school attendance, and lower labor supply of youths in El Salvador households connected to migrant study participants. We find substantial crowd-in of educational investments: for each $1 received by beneficiaries, educational expenditures increase by $3.72. We find no shifting of expenditures away from other students, and no effect on remittances.