Migrants' international transfers and educational expenditure: empirical evidence from Albania.

Autor/in	Cattaneo, Cristina
Titel	Migrants' international transfers and educational expenditure: empirical evidence from Albania.
Quelle	Milano: Fondazione Eni Enrico Mattei (2010), 28 S., 195,53 KB PDF als Volltext kostenfreie Datei (1); PDF als Volltext kostenfreie Datei (2); PDF als Volltext kostenfreie Datei (3) Link als defekt meldenVerfügbarkeit
Reihe	Nota di lavoro / Fondazione Eni Enrico Mattei. 01.2010. Global challenges
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	online; Monographie; Graue Literatur
Schlagwörter	Bildungsinvestition; Familieneinkommen; Investition; Konsum; Mikroökonomie; Rücküberweisung; Arbeitspapier; Migrant; Albanien
Abstract	The present paper analyses the expenditure behavior of Albanian families. The objective is to cast some light upon the relationship between education expenditure and the volume of remittances, sent from abroad by household members. To assess the existence of an education enhancing effect of remittances, an Engel curve framework is employed, where heterogeneity in interests or in bargaining power among the members within the households is assumed. The empirical estimation accounts for the censored nature of the education expenditure through using Heckman two-step as well as a semiparametric model for sample selection. Finally, quintile regression analysis is employed to investigate whether migrants' remittances have a differentiated effect on various quantiles of the conditional distribution of the education consumption.
Erfasst von	ZBW - Leibniz-Informationszentrum Wirtschaft, Kiel
Update	2011/2