CEU Electronic Theses and Dissertations, 2017
| Author | Usenaliev, Nurlan |
|---|---|
| Title | The Impact of Remittances on Children Education in Kyrgyzstan |
| Summary | This study investigates the impact of remittances on the education of left-behind children in Kyrgyzstan. Particularly, the study focuses on school expenditure. The effect of remittances is isolated from the effect of migration. Using the household - level survey “Life in Kyrgyzstan” for 2013, this study proposes the Instrumental Variable 2SLS procedure to address possible endogeneity bias arising from simultaneity between remittances receipts and education expenditures. The results suggest that there is not any statistically significant effect of remittances on educational expenditure of left-behind children in Kyrgyzstan. The results are in line with the prevailing belief in a literature on remittances that the latter are not spent on educational purposes, but rather spent on consumption of goods and purchase of durables. |
| Supervisor | No supervisor |
| Department | Economics MA |
| Full text | https://www.etd.ceu.edu/2017/usenaliev_nurlan.pdf |
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