Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/148911 
Year of Publication: 
2015
Series/Report no.: 
IOS Working Papers No. 354
Publisher: 
Institut für Ost- und Südosteuropaforschung (IOS), Regensburg
Abstract: 
We study the relationship between migration and children´s education in Tajikistan - one of the poorest and most remittance-dependent economies in the world. The analysis of a unique threewave household panel survey reveals that emigration of family members is negatively associated with children´s school attendance. Receiving remittances does not offset this negative effect. Migration of non-parent family members (such as siblings) is particularly detrimental to school attendance, especially among older children and children from less educated households. This supports a conjecture that emigration in Tajikistan has a negative signaling effect on the education of children staying behind.
Subjects: 
migration
remittances
schooling
Tajikistan
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Document Type: 
Working Paper

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