Remittances and the educational attainment of children in the Philippines

• Main Author: Borromeo, Miguel Roberto V.
• Format: text
• Published: Animo Repository 2012
• Subjects: Children of migrant laborers—Education—Philippines; Education—Economic aspects—Philippines; Educational sociology—Philippines; Dropout behavior, Prediction of; Emigrant remittances—Philippines; Behavioral Economics; Education
• Online Access: https://animorepository.dlsu.edu.ph/faculty_research/5842
• Institution: De La Salle University

This paper examines the determinants, primarily the receipt of remittances, of educational attainment of Filipino children using merged datasets from 2003 Labor force and family income and expenditures surveys. The determinants of the highest grade completed of children aged 13 to 22, 17 to 22, and...