Remittances and Unemployment Abroad

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Table of contents

1 Private Income Transfers, Information Asymmetry and Distance. Theory and Evidence from Colombia 
1.1 Introduction
1.2 Literature Review
1.2.1 Theoretical Background
1.2.2 Empirical Evidence
1.3 Information Asymmetry and Distance
1.4 Familias en Acción
1.4.1 Characteristics of the Program
1.4.2 Data
1.5 Sample Characteristics and Empirical Strategy
1.5.1 Descriptive Statistics
1.5.2 Empirical Strategy
1.6 Results
1.6.1 Main Estimates
1.6.2 Identification Threats
1.6.3 SocialWell-being
1.7 Conclusions
1.8 Figures and Tables
2 Remittances and Labor Supply in the Hearth of Ecuadorian Migrants 
2.1 Introduction
2.2 Data and Descriptive Statistics
2.2.1 Data
2.2.2 Descriptive Statistics
2.3 The 2008 Global Economic Crisis
2.4 Empirical Strategy
2.4.1 Identification Strategy
2.4.2 Quantile Regression
2.5 Results
2.5.1 Remittances and Unemployment Abroad
2.5.2 Individual Labor Supply
2.6 Potential Threats to the Exclusion Restriction
2.6.1 Return Migration and Re-migration
2.6.2 Selection in Migration Patterns
2.6.3 Confounding Macroeconomic Variables
2.6.4 Sample Attrition
2.7 Conclusions
2.8 Figures and Tables
Appendix
3 Intra-household Income Transfers and its Effects on Children’s Nutrition and Health in Peru 
3.1 Introduction
3.2 Background
3.2.1 Peru’s Elderly Population
3.2.2 Pensión 65
3.3 Data and Descriptive statistics
3.3.1 Households with Children under 5 y/o
3.3.2 Children under 5 y/o
3.4 Empirical Strategy
3.5 Results
3.5.1 Household Monetary Spending
3.5.2 Children’s Nutrition and Health
3.5.3 Sensitivity Tests
3.5.4 Validity Analysis
3.5.5 Potential Confounding Factors
3.6 Conclusions
3.7 Tables and Figures
Appendix
Bibliography