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To estimate the impact of remittance income on education expenditures, we include variables controlling for household income from three sources and household age structure and family structure.
The method allows comparing a remittance‐receiving household with its non‐receiving counterpart, and the difference is the impact of remittance receipt, the average treatment effect (ATE).
The impact of remittance receipt is similar for both genders: the inflows are associated with higher expenditures on education, health, and housing and smaller food expenses.
Turning to our multivariate regression analysis, we focus on the impact of remittance income on a family's investment in education spending.
As the direction and size of the effect of remittances on human capital investment is unclear a priori, we first examine the impact of remittance income on educational expenditures at the household level.
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World Bank researchers, who will release a report later this month, found that the overall impact of remittances on Latin American economies is modest at best.
Humberto Lopez, who co-authored the upcoming World Bank report "Close to Home: The Development Impact of Remittances in Latin America," said the money sent home by migrant workers cannot be seen as a substitute for good economic policies.
The impact of remittances is also not substantially different.
The next section briefly summarizes the impact of remittances on development.
The impact of remittances will be different even in the absence of gender‐specific preferences.
Meanwhile, the impact of remittances has been widely acknowledged in the national development process.
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