Migrant Remittances Received in Mexico: Gender Implications and Remittances' Impact on Children's Education and Nutrition Public

Abstract

Migrant Remittances Received in Mexico: Gender Implications and Remittances' Impact
on Children's Education and Nutrition
By Sveta Milusheva

As remittances become an increasingly more important source of income for
developing countries, it is necessary to critically examine their effect on issues of
development, specifically focusing on the role that gender plays in the relationship
between remittances and development. This study looks at three different gender effects
on remittances in Mexico using the National Survey of Household Income and Spending.
First, it examines the effect that the gender of the children has on the amount of
remittances sent back, finding that there is a tendency of more remittances being sent
back to households with male children as compared to those households with female
children. Second, it looks at the effect of remittances on education, finding that
remittances tend to be spent on boys' education but not on girls' education. And finally, it
examines the effect of remittances on food spending, finding that in remittance receiving
households headed by women, more is spent on education than in households headed by
men, and the gender of the children does have some effect on the amount spent on food.

Table of Contents

Table of Contents

I. Introduction……………………………………………………………………… 1
II. Background on Remittances as a Development Tool…………………………… 3
III. Background of Remittances to Mexico………………………………………… 6
IV. Theory and Hypotheses………………………………………………………… 9
V. Data……………………………………………………………………………… 14
VI. Empirical Methods.......……………………………………………………….. 17
VII. Results…..……………………………………………………………………... 24
VIII. Discussion.…………………………………………………………………… 48
IX. Conclusion……………………………………………………………………... 51
References………………………………………………………………………….. 54
Appendix…………………………………………………………………………… 59
Figures and Tables
Figure1: Remittances Received in Mexico…………………………………………. 8
Table 1: Characteristics of Remittance and Non Remittance Receiving Households……. 16
Table 2: Effect of Children's Gender on Remittances Received…………………… 26
Table 3: Spending on Education in Remittance Receiving Households…………… 31
Table 4: Money Spent on Education per Girl and per Boy by City Size…………… 33
Table 5: Factors Affecting Total Education Spent in Household……………………. 36
Table 6: Money Spent on Food Items………………………………………………. 40-41
Table 7: Effects of Gender of the Head of Household in Remittance and Non-Remittance
Receiving Households………………………………………………………………… 44

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School	Emory College
Department	Economics
Degree	BA
Submission	Honors Thesis
Language	English
Research Field	Economics, General
Mot-clé	Mexico development education gender inequality nutrition remittances
Committee Chair / Thesis Advisor	Francis, Andrew, Emory University
Committee Members	Odem, Mary E, Emory University Pesavento, Elena, Emory University

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