作者: Randall Kuhn
DOI: 10.1080/17441730600700572
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摘要: This paper studies the impact of fathers’ and siblings’ migration on children's pace schooling in Matlab, an area rural Bangladesh with high rates rural–urban international out-migration. A large sample children aged seven to 14 participated 1996 Matlab Health Socio-economic Survey. The overseas their fathers both internal brothers were associated improvements schooling. sisters had no effect. Migration mothers location this study remained too rare be addressed study. Research relating improved outcomes among left-behind raises concern that effects merely proxy for greater investment capital or higher aspirations. By integrating MHSS data a unique Demographic Surveillance System, wealth measured at time survey years before controlled for. eff...