Assessing the Impact of Remittances on Schooling: the Mexican Experience

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Remittances, schooling, and child labor in Mexico (2012, background): “Borraz (2005) suggests that the effects found for girls in households with relatively uneducated mothers in the previously cited paper are only present in very small communities (population below 2,500).”
International Remittances and Human Capital Formation (2014, methodology): “However, there is still not a clear effect of remittances on schooling (Borraz, 2005; Hu, 2012) and to my knowledge all the studies on remittances’ effects have evaluated only quantity without including quality of schooling.”
Remittances, Liquidity Constraints and Human Capital Investments in Ecuador (2009, unknown): “Borraz (2005) finds similar results using data from the Mexican census, which suggest a positive but small effect on schooling for boys and girls with low educated mothers and”
Accounting for Remittance and Migration Effects on Children's Schooling (2010, background): “Focusing on Latin America, the hypothesis that remittances raise educational attainment or investments in schooling has received support in a growing number of studies, including those by Ilahi (2001) for Peru; Cox Edwards and Ureta (2003) for El Salvador; Borraz (2005) for Mexico; Acosta et al. (20”