Poor parents, rich children the role of schooling, non farm work, and migration in rural Philippines

This paper explores how migration to local towns, big cities, and overseas has halted the transmission of poverty from parents to children in rural Philippines. Parents’ income has come mainly from agricultural sources while children’s income has come largely from nonfarm sources. Initially, poverty...

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Published in:	Philippine Review of Economics Vol. LI, no. 2 (Dec. 2014), pp. 21-46
Main Author:	Estudillo, Jonna
Other Authors:	Mano, Yukichi, Sawada, Yasusuki, Otsuka, Kejiro
Resource Type:	Article
Language:	English
Published:	2014
Subjects:	Rural-urban migration Emigration and immigration Poverty Education and economics