Remittances and life cycle deficits in Latin America

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 econ...

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Autores principales: Bebczuk, Ricardo Néstor, Battistón, Diego Ezequiel
Formato: Articulo Documento de trabajo
Lenguaje:Inglés
Publicado: 2010
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Economía
América Latina
déficit
ciclo económico
Acceso en línea:http://sedici.unlp.edu.ar/handle/10915/3653
http://cedlas.econo.unlp.edu.ar/download.php?file=archivos_upload/doc_cedlas94.pdf
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topic Economía
América Latina
déficit
ciclo económico
spellingShingle Economía
América Latina
déficit
ciclo económico
Bebczuk, Ricardo Néstor
Battistón, Diego Ezequiel
Remittances and life cycle deficits in Latin America
topic_facet Economía
América Latina
déficit
ciclo económico
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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Battistón, Diego Ezequiel
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title Remittances and life cycle deficits in Latin America
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
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