Template-Type: ReDIF-Paper 1.0
Author-Name: Calero, C.
Author-Name-Last: Calero
Author-Name-First: Carla
Author-Name: Bedi, A.S.
Author-Name-Last: Bedi
Author-Name-First: Arjun Singh
Author-Person: pbe710
Author-Name: Sparrow, R.A.
Author-Name-Last: Sparrow
Author-Name-First: Robert
Author-Person: psp22
Title: Remittances, liquidity constraints and human capital investments in Ecuador.
Abstract: Over the last decade Ecuador has experienced a strong increase in financial transfers from migrated workers. This paper investigates how remittances via trans-national networks affect
 human capital investments through relaxing resource constraints and facilitate households in consumption smoothing by reducing vulnerability to economic shocks. Our results show that remittances
 increase school enrolment and decrease incidence of child work, especially for girls and in rural areas. Furthermore, we find that aggregate shocks are associated with increased work activities,
 while remittances are used to finance education when households are faced with these shocks.
Creation-Date: 2008-04-01
File-URL: https://repub.eur.nl/pub/18735/wp458.pdf
File-Format: application/pdf
Series: RePEc:ems:euriss
Classification-JEL: I20, J22, O15
Keywords: Ecuador., Latin America, human capital, migration, remittances, transnational networks
Handle: RePEc:ems:euriss:18735