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Male migrants have a 12 percentage point lower likelihood of sending remittances after marriage than before the event.
Our results show that the migration of many people from the same family negatively influences the likelihood of sending remittances and the amount of remittances.
As such, the overall impact of E-Verify mandates on the likelihood of sending money home by Mexican migrants is given by: (0.022-0.181*share of undocumented) = 0.022-0.181*0.64 = -0.094.
Secondly, our results show that the employment situation of the migrant significantly influences the likelihood of sending remittances, in particular, unemployed or inactive migrants are less likely to remit.
The OLS model predicts a difference of 8 percentage points in the likelihood of sending remittances for men who marry a German rather than a non-German spouse and a difference of 6 percentage points for female migrants.
Under the assumption of altruism, these studies show that the likelihood of sending remittances and the amounts transferred are increasing functions of migrant income (Lucas and Stark 1985; Vanwey 2004).
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For the poorest families in Norway, very small differences in income relative to family needs were, on average, associated with differential likelihoods of sending their children to ECEC; for middle class and wealthier families, however, differences in family income-to-needs ratio were much less strongly associated with ECEC use.
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Even in terms of quality, Salas (2014) finds that remittances increase the likelihood of investing in sending children to private schools.
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