The Effect of Parental Migration on the Schooling of Children Left Behind in Rural Cambodia

Francesca Marchetta

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Abstract: Growing rural-to-urban and international migration flows have sparked concerns about investments in the education of left-behind children in Cambodia. We drew on a panel household-level survey conducted in rural villages in 2014 and 2017 to analyze the relationship between parental migration and schooling of children. The analysis revealed that children of migrant parents lag significantly behind in terms of years of completed schooling. We used the longitudinal dimension of the data to estimate a placebo test, which greatly reduced concerns related to the possible confounding effect of unobserved heterogeneity. The negative effect that we uncovered appeared to be driven largely by reduced parental input in children’s education rather than by an increase in child labor.

Keywords: Cambodia; parental migration; remittances; education; children’s schooling (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: F22 I25 R23 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2020
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Journal Article: The effect of parental migration on the schooling of children left behind in rural Cambodia (2021)
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