Poor parents, rich children the role of schooling, nonfarm, 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:	The Philippine Review of Economics Vol. 51, no. 2 (December 2014), p. 21-46.
Main Authors:	Estudillo, Jonna P. (Author), Mano, Yukichi (Author), Sawada, Yasuyuki (Author), Otsuka, Keijiro (Author)
Resource Type:	Analytics
Language:	English
Published:	[Quezon City] School of Economics, University of the Philippines 2014.
Subjects:	Rural-urban migration > Philippines. Emigration and immigration > Philippines. Poverty > Philippines. Education > Economic aspects > Philippines.
Online Access:	https://forms.gle/KZjBv7aRtY6jiL5E9