The Impact of Remittances on Poverty and Human Capital: Evidence from Latin American Household SurveysWorld Bank Publications, 2007 - 37 pagini This paper explores the impact of remittances on poverty, education, and health in 11 Latin American countries using nationally representative household surveys and making an explicit attempt to account for one of the inherent costs associated with migration -- the potential income that the migrant may have made at home. The main findings of the study are the following: (1) regardless of the counterfactual used remittances appear to lower poverty levels in most recipient countries; (2) yet despite this general tendency, the estimated impacts tend to be modes; and (3) there is significant country heterogeneity in the poverty reduction impact of remittances' flows. Among the aspects that have been identified in the paper that may lead to varying outcomes across countries are the percentage of households reporting remittances income, the share of remittances of recipient households belonging to the lowest quintiles of the income distribution, and the relative importance of remittances flows with respect to GDP. While remittances tend to have positive effects on education and health, this impact is often restricted to specific groups of the population. |
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6-15 years old Acosta amount of remittances analysis anthropometric Author's calculations based based on household Bolivia child children aged counterfactual income counterfactual scenario cross country development impact differences Dominican Republic Economic Ecuador educational attainment Effects of Migration effects of remittances El Salvador Encuesta Nacional equation Guatemala Haiti Hanson and Woodruff headcount poverty HH Head higher Hogares Honduras household characteristics household income household surveys households receiving remittances households with migrants human capital impact of remittances income distribution Income Quintile International Migration Jamaica lower lowest quintile Mexico migrant remittances migration and remittances Mother Educ Nicaragua non-recipient households non-remittances income observed poverty rates Paraguay percentage of households Peru potential poverty impact poverty levels poverty lines poverty reducing effects Recipient HHs recipients of remittances Regressions remittances flows remittances on poverty remittances received remittances recipient households Rural Salvador sample schooling Significant urban Weight-for-Age World Bank Yes Yes Yes Z-Score