Remittances and life cycle deficits in Latin America

Autores
Bebczuk, Ricardo Néstor; Battistón, Diego Ezequiel
Año de publicación
2010
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inglés
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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.
Centro de Estudios Distributivos, Laborales y Sociales (CEDLAS)
Materia
Economía
América Latina
déficit
ciclo económico
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spelling Remittances and life cycle deficits in Latin AmericaBebczuk, Ricardo NéstorBattistón, Diego EzequielEconomíaAmérica Latinadéficitciclo económicoThe 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)2010info:eu-repo/semantics/workingPaperinfo:eu-repo/semantics/submittedVersionDocumento de trabajohttp://purl.org/coar/resource_type/c_8042info:ar-repo/semantics/documentoDeTrabajoapplication/pdfhttp://sedici.unlp.edu.ar/handle/10915/3653enginfo:eu-repo/semantics/altIdentifier/url/http://cedlas.econo.unlp.edu.ar/download.php?file=archivos_upload/doc_cedlas94.pdfinfo:eu-repo/semantics/altIdentifier/issn/1853-0168info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccesshttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)reponame:SEDICI (UNLP)instname:Universidad Nacional de La Platainstacron:UNLP2025-09-29T10:49:17Zoai:sedici.unlp.edu.ar:10915/3653Institucionalhttp://sedici.unlp.edu.ar/Universidad públicaNo correspondehttp://sedici.unlp.edu.ar/oai/snrdalira@sedici.unlp.edu.arArgentinaNo correspondeNo correspondeNo correspondeopendoar:13292025-09-29 10:49:17.581SEDICI (UNLP) - Universidad Nacional de La Platafalse
dc.title.none.fl_str_mv Remittances and life cycle deficits in Latin America
title Remittances and life cycle deficits in Latin America
spellingShingle Remittances and life cycle deficits in Latin America
Bebczuk, Ricardo Néstor
Economía
América Latina
déficit
ciclo económico
title_short Remittances and life cycle deficits in Latin America
title_full Remittances and life cycle deficits in Latin America
title_fullStr Remittances and life cycle deficits in Latin America
title_full_unstemmed Remittances and life cycle deficits in Latin America
title_sort Remittances and life cycle deficits in Latin America
dc.creator.none.fl_str_mv Bebczuk, Ricardo Néstor
Battistón, Diego Ezequiel
author Bebczuk, Ricardo Néstor
author_facet Bebczuk, Ricardo Néstor
Battistón, Diego Ezequiel
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author2 Battistón, Diego Ezequiel
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dc.subject.none.fl_str_mv Economía
América Latina
déficit
ciclo económico
topic Economía
América Latina
déficit
ciclo económico
dc.description.none.fl_txt_mv 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)
description 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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