Left Behind but Not Immobile: Living Arrangements of Mexican Transnational Households

We provide evidence that most Mexican children exposed to the international migration of their fathers experience further variations in their living arrangements or the dissolution of the marital union of their parents. Children left behind typically join the household of their maternal grandparents...

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Published in:Economic development and cultural change 2023-07, Vol.71 (4), p.1359-1395
Main Authors: Bertoli, Simone, Gautrain, Elsa, Murard, Elie
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Children
Dissolution
Endogenous
Fathers
Grandparents
Households
Humanities and Social Sciences
Living arrangements
Migration
Payments
Remittances
Transnationalism
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Summary:We provide evidence that most Mexican children exposed to the international migration of their fathers experience further variations in their living arrangements or the dissolution of the marital union of their parents. Children left behind typically join the household of their maternal grandparents. These changes have relevant implications for the analysis of the effects of migration and remittances: they interfere with the identification of instances of paternal migration in standard cross-sectional or longitudinal surveys, and they can give rise to heterogeneity in the effects of interest making some key household-level variables endogenous with respect to the treatment.
ISSN:0013-0079
1539-2988
DOI:10.1086/717282