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    Migration, Economic Crisis and Child Growth in Rural Guatemala : Insights from the Great Recession (2021)
    Washington, D.C : The World Bank
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    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (67 pages)
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Print Version: Carletto, Calogero Migration, Economic Crisis and Child Growth in Rural Guatemala: Insights from the Great Recession
    Keywords: 2008 Great Recession ; Child Growth ; Early Child and Children's Health ; Economic Shock ; Health, Nutrition and Population ; Migration ; Poverty Reduction ; Remittances ; Stunting
    Abstract: Migration has been demonstrated by various studies to be closely linked to improvements in individual- and household-level outcomes. Rather than examining the effects of migration, this paper explores whether an economic shock in United States negatively affected migrant households in rural Guatemala. Treating the Great Recession as a natural experiment affecting migrant and non-migrant households differently, the paper puts the spotlight on the effect on child anthropometry, including longer-term indicators of height-for-age z-scores. Panel data on children and multiple children in households enable double- and triple-difference estimation. In relative terms, migrant households fared far worse than non-migrant households over the period. In particular, large advantages in child anthropometric status for the youngest children in migrant households in 2008, just prior to the crisis, were substantially diminished four years later. The findings underscore the possible fragility of the benefits of migration, particularly in the face of a substantial economic shock, and point to the potential importance of deepening social safety nets
    DOI: 10.1596/1813-9450-9734
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    Agency, Education And Networks : Gender And International Migration From Albania (2008)
    Washington, D.C : The World Bank
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    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (1 online resource (35 p.))
    Edition: Online-Ausg. World Bank E-Library Archive
    Parallel Title: Stecklov, Guy Agency, Education And Networks
    Keywords: Anthropology ; Communities & Human Settlements ; Culture & Development ; Family members ; Health, Nutrition and Population ; Human Migrations and Resettlements ; Human Rights ; International Migration ; International migrant ; Law and Development ; Living Standards ; Policy ReseaRch ; Policy ReseaRch WoRking PaPeR ; Population Policies ; Progress ; Social Development ; Traditional societies ; Unmarried women ; Voluntary and Involuntary Resettlement ; War ; Anthropology ; Communities & Human Settlements ; Culture & Development ; Family members ; Health, Nutrition and Population ; Human Migrations and Resettlements ; Human Rights ; International Migration ; International migrant ; Law and Development ; Living Standards ; Policy ReseaRch ; Policy ReseaRch WoRking PaPeR ; Population Policies ; Progress ; Social Development ; Traditional societies ; Unmarried women ; Voluntary and Involuntary Resettlement ; War ; Anthropology ; Communities & Human Settlements ; Culture & Development ; Family members ; Health, Nutrition and Population ; Human Migrations and Resettlements ; Human Rights ; International Migration ; International migrant ; Law and Development ; Living Standards ; Policy ReseaRch ; Policy ReseaRch WoRking PaPeR ; Population Policies ; Progress ; Social Development ; Traditional societies ; Unmarried women ; Voluntary and Involuntary Resettlement ; War
    Abstract: This paper examines the causes and dynamics of the shift in the gender composition of migration, and more particularly, in the access of women to migration opportunities and decision making. The context of the analysis is Albania, a natural laboratory for studying migration developments given that out-migration was practically eliminated from the end of World War II to the end of the 1980s. The authors use micro-level data from the Albania 2005 Living Standards Measurement Study including migration histories for family members since migration began. Based on discrete-time hazard models, the analysis shows an impressive expansion of female participation in international migration. Female migration, which is shown to be strongly associated with education, wealth, and social capital, appears responsive to economic incentives and constraints. Yet, using unique data on the dependency of female migration to the household demographic structure as well as the sensitivity of female migration to household-level shocks, the authors show that it is the households themselves that are the decision-making agents behind this economic calculus and there is little to suggest that increased female migration signals the emergence of female agency
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