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INTERNATIONAL MIGRATION REVIEW
Volume 45, Issue 3, Pages 727-745Publisher
WILEY
DOI: 10.1111/j.1747-7379.2011.00864.x
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This article evaluates the impact of remittances on health outcomes in Ecuador using an instrumental-variables approach. Although we do not find significant impacts on long-term child health variables, we find that remittances do have an impact on health expenditures, and on some preventive issues such as de-worming and vaccination. In addition, we find significant effects of remittances on medicine expenditures when illness occurs. In this regard, remittances are used for both preventive and emergency situations. Interestingly, we also find a significant and positive effect of remittances on health knowledge.
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