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| dc.title | The Impact of Economic Migration on Children's Cognitive Development: Evidence from the Mexican Family Life Survey |
| dc.contributor.author | Powers, Elizabeth T. |
| dc.contributor.orgunit | Department of Research and Chief Economist |
| dc.coverage | Mexico |
| dc.date.available | 2011-08-23T00:00:00 |
| dc.date.issue | 2011-05-01T00:00:00 |
| dc.description.abstract | This paper uses data from the Mexican Family Life Survey to estimate the impact of a household member's migration to the United States on the cognitive development of children remaining in Mexico. While there is no developmental effect of a child's sibling migrating to the United States, there is an adverse effect when another household member-typically the child's parent- migrates. This is particularly true for pre-school to early-school-age children with older siblings, for whom the effect of parental migration is comparable to speaking an indigenous language at home or having a mother with very low educational attainment. Additionally, household-member migration to the United States affects how children spend their time in ways that may influence and/or be influenced by cognitive development. |
| dc.format.extent | 56 |
| dc.identifier.doi | http://dx.doi.org/10.18235/0011204 |
| dc.identifier.url | https://publications.iadb.org/publications/english/document/The-Impact-of-Economic-Migration-on-Children-Cognitive-Development-Evidence-from-the-Mexican-Family-Life-Survey.pdf |
| dc.language.iso | en |
| dc.medium | Adobe PDF |
| dc.publisher | Inter-American Development Bank |
| dc.subject | Rural Development |
| dc.subject | Migration and Migrant |
| dc.subject | Youth and Children |
| dc.subject | Early Childhood Education |
| dc.subject | Child Development |
| dc.subject.jelcode | I12 - Health Behavior |
| dc.subject.jelcode | I38 - Government Policy • Provision and Effects of Welfare Programs |
| dc.subject.jelcode | J11 - Demographic Trends, Macroeconomic Effects, and Forecasts |
| dc.subject.jelcode | J61 - Geographic Labor Mobility • Immigrant Workers |
| dc.subject.jelcode | O15 - Human Resources • Human Development • Income Distribution • Migration |
| dc.subject.keywords | IDB-WP-246, Mexico, Migration, Early child development, Cognitive development |
| dc.type | Working Papers |
| idb.identifier.pubnumber | Working Papers |
| idb.operation | RG-K1091 |