Gender, educational attainment, and the impact of parental migration on children left behind

Journal of Population Economics

Volumn 25, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 1187-1214

  Antman, Francisca M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

Author keywords

Education; Father absence; Gender; Migration

Indexed keywords

EID: 84862593539     PISSN: 09331433     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00148-012-0423-y     Document Type: Article

References (35)

1. Acosta P (2011) School attendance, child labour, and remittances from international migration in El Salvador. J Dev Stud 47(6): 913-36.
2. Antman FM (2010) International migration, spousal control, and gender discrimination in the allocation of household resources. University of Colorado at Boulder Department of Economics Working Paper No. 10-15.
3. Antman FM (2011a) International migration and gender discrimination among children left behind. Am Econ Rev 101(3): 645-649.
4. Antman FM (2011b) The intergenerational effects of paternal migration on schooling and work: what can we learn from children's time allocations? J Dev Econ 96(2): 200-208.
5. Antman FM (2012) The impact of migration on family left behind. In: Constant A, Zimmermann KF (eds) International handbook on the economics of migration. Edward Elgar, Cheltenham, UK (forthcoming).
6. Ashraf N, Aycinena D, Martinez C, Yang D (2009) Remittances and the problem of control: a field experiment among migrants from El Salvador. University of Michigan.
7. Barcellos SH, Carvalho L, Lleras-Muney A (2010) Child gender and parental investments in india: are boys and girls treated differently? RAND Working Paper No WR-756.
8. Bertrand M, Pan J (2011) The trouble with boys: social influences and the gender gap in disruptive behavior. National Bureau of Economic Research Working Paper No. 17541.
9. Bleakley H, Chin A (2004) Language skills and earnings: evidence from childhood immigrants. Rev Econ Stat 86(2): 481-496.
10. Bleakley H, Chin A (2010) Age at arrival, english proficiency, and social assimilation among US immigrants. Am Econ J Appl Econ 2(1): 165-192.
11. Booth MZ (1995) Children of migrant fathers: the effects of father absence on Swazi children's preparedness for school. Comp Educ Rev 39(2): 195-210.
12. Dahl GB, Moretti E (2004) The demand for sons: evidence from divorce, fertility and shotgun marriage. National Bureau of Economic Research Working Paper No. 10281.
13. Duflo E (2003) Grandmothers and granddaughters: old-age pensions and intrahousehold allocation in South Africa. World Bank Econ Rev 17(1): 1-25.
14. Durand J, Lozano V, Romo R (2005) MMP/LAMP interviewer's manual. http://mmp. opr. princeton. edu/databases/pdf/Interviewers%20Manual%202005. pdf.
15. Ginther DK, Pollak RA (2004) Family structure and children's educational outcomes: blended families, stylized facts, and descriptive regressions. Demography 41(4): 671-696.
16. Giorguli Saucedo SE (2006) School dropout rates, adolescent labor and family structures in Mexico. In: Lezama JL, Morelos JB (eds) Population, city and environment in contemporary Mexico. El Colegio de México, México, DF, pp 223-257.
17. Grogger J, Ronan N (1995) The intergenerational effects of fatherlessness on educational attainment and entry-level wages. National Longitudinal Surveys Discussion Paper, Bureau of Labor Statistics.
18. Hanson GH, Woodruff C (2003) Emigration and educational attainment in Mexico. University of California, San Diego.
19. Lang K, Zagorsky JL (2001) Does growing up with a parent absent really hurt? J Hum Resour 36(2): 253-273.
20. Kling JR, Ludwig J, Katz LF (2005) Neighborhood effects on crime for female and male youth: evidence from a randomized housing voucher experiment. Q J Econ 120(1): 87-130.
21. Kling JR, Liebman JB, Katz LF (2007) Experimental analysis of neighborhood effects. Econometrica 75(1): 83-119.
22. Kroeger A, Anderson K (2011) Remittances and children's capabilities: new evidence from Kyrgyzstan. DIW Working Paper No. 1170.
23. Massey DS, Zenteno R (2000) A validation of the ethnosurvey: the case of Mexico-U. S. migration. Int Migr Rev 34(3): 766-793.
24. McKenzie D, Rapoport H (2011) Can migration reduce educational attainment? Evidence from Mexico. J Popul Econ 24(4): 1331-1358.
25. Meyerhoefer CD, Chen CJ (2011) The effect of parental labor migration on children's educational progress in rural China. Rev Econ Househ 9(3): 379-396.
26. Nobles J (2006) The contribution of migration to children's family contexts. California Center for Population Research Working Paper No. CCPR-046-06.
27. Nobles J (2007) Parental migration and child health in Mexico. Paper presented at the 2007 Population Association of America Annual Meeting, New York, NY, USA, 29-31 March 2007.
28. Organization for Economic Cooperation and Economic Development (2010) CO3. 1: educational attainment by gender and average years spent in formal education. http://www. oecd. org/dataoecd/56/9/37863998. pdf.
29. Pitt MM, Rosenzweig MR, Hassan N (2010) Human capital investment and the gender division of labor in a Brawn-based economy. Yale University Economic Growth Center Discussion Paper No. 989.
30. Reyes BI (1997) Dynamics of immigration: return to Western Mexico. Public Policy Institute of California, San Francisco, CA, USA.
31. Sandefur GD, Wells T (1997) Using siblings to investigate the effects of family structure on educational attainment. Institute for Research on Poverty Discussion Paper No. 1144-97.
32. Santrock JW (1972) Relation of type and onset of father absence to cognitive development. Child Dev 43(2): 455-469.
33. Thomas D (1994) Like father, like son; like mother, like daughter: parental resources and child height. J Hum Resour 29(4): 950-988.
34. U. S. Department of Education (2002) Education around the world: Mexico. http://www2. ed. gov/offices/OUS/PES/int_mexico. html.
35. Yang D (2008) International migration, remittances and household investment: evidence from Philippine migrants' exchange rate shocks. Econ J 118(528): 591-630.