Remittances and life cycle deficits in Latin America
- Autores
- Bebczuk, Ricardo Néstor; Battistón, Diego Ezequiel
- Año de publicación
- 2010
- Idioma
- inglés
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- Estado
- versión enviada
- Descripción
- The paper investigates the effect of remittances on the coverage of financial deficits arising during youth and retirement years and their influence on some household behaviors. To this end, household survey information is used from Ecuador, Honduras, Mexico and Nicaragua to perform a number of econometric tests exploring the linkage between remittances and a battery of health, education and work outcomes dealing with young and elderly household members. The main overall finding is that, with variations across countries and regression specifications, remittances generally appear to exert a positive and robust impact. In particular, with few exceptions, remittances (a) respond to the lack of pensions and especially to overall household financial deficits; (b) encourage co-residence of the elderly with younger relatives; (c) facilitate elderly's retirement; (d) increase household expenditures in health and education; (e) foster public and private school attendance, inhibits child labor, and improve anthropometric measures.
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Economía
América Latina
déficit
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- Universidad Nacional de La Plata
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Remittances and life cycle deficits in Latin America |
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Remittances and life cycle deficits in Latin America |
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Remittances and life cycle deficits in Latin America |
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Remittances and life cycle deficits in Latin America |
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Remittances and life cycle deficits in Latin America |
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Remittances and life cycle deficits in Latin America |
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Remittances and life cycle deficits in Latin America |
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Bebczuk, Ricardo Néstor Battistón, Diego Ezequiel |
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Bebczuk, Ricardo Néstor |
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Bebczuk, Ricardo Néstor Battistón, Diego Ezequiel |
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Battistón, Diego Ezequiel |
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Economía América Latina déficit ciclo económico |
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Economía América Latina déficit ciclo económico |
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The paper investigates the effect of remittances on the coverage of financial deficits arising during youth and retirement years and their influence on some household behaviors. To this end, household survey information is used from Ecuador, Honduras, Mexico and Nicaragua to perform a number of econometric tests exploring the linkage between remittances and a battery of health, education and work outcomes dealing with young and elderly household members. The main overall finding is that, with variations across countries and regression specifications, remittances generally appear to exert a positive and robust impact. In particular, with few exceptions, remittances (a) respond to the lack of pensions and especially to overall household financial deficits; (b) encourage co-residence of the elderly with younger relatives; (c) facilitate elderly's retirement; (d) increase household expenditures in health and education; (e) foster public and private school attendance, inhibits child labor, and improve anthropometric measures. Centro de Estudios Distributivos, Laborales y Sociales (CEDLAS) |
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