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

Serie

• NBER Working Papers

Resumen

• 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.

autores

• Ambler, Kate
• Aycinena, Diego
• Yang, Dean

fecha de publicación

• 2014-06

Área temática

• C93 - Experimentos de campo
• F22 - Migraciones internacionales
• F24 - Remesas
• H24 - Impuesto y subvenciones de la renta personal y otras rentas no empresariales
• I22 - Financiación de la educación; Ayuda financiera
• J15 - Economía de las minorías, de las razas, de los pueblos indígenas y de los inmigrantes; No discriminación laboral
• O15 - Recursos humanos; Desarrollo humano; Distribución de la renta; Migraciones

Enfoque geográfico

• El Salvador  Country
• central America 

Issue

• 20262