TY - JOUR
T1 - Educational Selectivity of Migrants and Current School Enrollment of Children Left behind
T2 - Analyses in Three African Countries
AU - Chae, Sophia
AU - Glick, Jennifer E.
N1 - Funding Information:
We appreciate the technical support provided by Robert Highfield and the helpful advice of the editors and anonymous reviewers. The author(s) received the following financial support for the research, authorship, and/or publication of this article: This research was supported by the Population Research Institute at The Pennsylvania State University, which is supported by an infrastructure grant from the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (P2CHD041025) and support from P01HD080659.
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PY - 2019/9/1
Y1 - 2019/9/1
N2 - Migration of household members is often undertaken to improve the well-being of individuals remaining in the household. Despite this, research has demonstrated inconsistent associations between migration and children’s well-being across sending areas and types of migration. To understand the degree to which different types of migration and migrants are associated with schooling, we analyze comparable data across three African countries differing in prevalence, type, and selectivity of migration. Results suggest that recent migration is differentially associated with left-behind children’s school enrollment across settings. When analyses are restricted to migrant-sending households, however, migrant selectivity is positively associated with school enrollment.
AB - Migration of household members is often undertaken to improve the well-being of individuals remaining in the household. Despite this, research has demonstrated inconsistent associations between migration and children’s well-being across sending areas and types of migration. To understand the degree to which different types of migration and migrants are associated with schooling, we analyze comparable data across three African countries differing in prevalence, type, and selectivity of migration. Results suggest that recent migration is differentially associated with left-behind children’s school enrollment across settings. When analyses are restricted to migrant-sending households, however, migrant selectivity is positively associated with school enrollment.
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U2 - 10.1177/0197918318772261
DO - 10.1177/0197918318772261
M3 - Article
C2 - 32265577
AN - SCOPUS:85059898447
VL - 53
SP - 736
EP - 769
JO - International Migration Review
JF - International Migration Review
SN - 0197-9183
IS - 3
ER -