The roles of gender and education in the intrahousehold allocation of remittances of Filipino migrant workers

This paper shows that the individual’s bargaining power within the household, proxied by the gender and the educational attainment of the household head, affects how remittances sent by Overseas Filipino Workers are spent in the Philippines. Generalized linear model estimation and post-estimation te...

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Published in:	Philippine Review of Economics Vol. 53, no. 1 (Jun. 2016), 19-55
Main Author:	Pajaron, Marjorie
Resource Type:	Article
Language:	English
Published:	2016
Subjects:	Emigration and immigration > Economic aspects Emigrant remittances