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

Citation Type: Working Paper

Publication Year: 2014

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Abstract: 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.

Url: http://www.nber.org/papers/w20262

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Authors: Ambler, Kate; Aycinena, Diego; Yang, Dean

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Publication Number: 20262

Institution: National Bureau of Economic Research

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Publisher Location: Cambridge, Massachusetts

Data Collections: IPUMS USA

Topics: Migration and Immigration, Other, Race and Ethnicity

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