The Impact of Economic Migration on Children's Cognitive Development: Evidence from the Mexican Family Life Survey

Elizabeth Powers

No 3104, IDB Publications (Working Papers) from Inter-American Development Bank

Abstract: This paper uses data from the Mexican Family Life Survey to estimate the impact of a household member's migration to the United States on the cognitive development of children remaining in Mexico. While there is no developmental effect of a child's sibling migrating to the United States, there is an adverse effect when another household member-typically the child's parent- migrates. This is particularly true for pre-school to early-school-age children with older siblings, for whom the effect of parental migration is comparable to speaking an indigenous language at home or having a mother with very low educational attainment. Additionally, household-member migration to the United States affects how children spend their time in ways that may influence and/or be influenced by cognitive development.

Keywords: IDB-WP-246; Mexico; Migration; Early child development; Cognitive development (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: I12 I38 J11 J61 O15 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2011-05
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