Remittances, schooling, and child labor in Mexico

Carlo Alcaraz Pribaz (), Daniel Chiquiar and Alejandrina Salcedo

Journal of Development Economics, 2012, vol. 97, issue 1, 156-165

Abstract: 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.

Keywords: Child labor; International migration; Remittances; Mexico (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: J43 J81 O15 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2012
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DOI: 10.1016/j.jdeveco.2010.11.004

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