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Poor parents, rich children: the role of schooling, nonfarm work, and migration in rural Philippines

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  • Jonna P. Estudillo

    (National Graduate Institute for Policy Studies)

  • Yukichi Mano

    (Hitotsubashi University)

  • Yasuyuki Sawada

    (University of Tokyo)

  • Keijiro Otsuka

    (National Graduate Institute for Policy Studies)

Abstract

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. ParentsÕ income has come mainly from agricultural sources while childrenÕs income has come largely from nonfarm sources. Initially, poverty is higher among the landless households. Children from poor landless households are able to find their way out of poverty by acquiring more education, participating in rural nonfarm labor market, and migrating to big cities, local towns, and overseas. Migrant children have higher total income coming mainly from nonfarm income, which is significantly affected by education. In brief, this study demonstrates the rise in economic importance of education and the decline in economic importance of farmland in explaining economic mobility.

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  • Jonna P. Estudillo & Yukichi Mano & Yasuyuki Sawada & Keijiro Otsuka, 2014. "Poor parents, rich children: the role of schooling, nonfarm work, and migration in rural Philippines," Philippine Review of Economics, University of the Philippines School of Economics and Philippine Economic Society, vol. 51(2), pages 21-46, December.
    • Handle: RePEc:phs:prejrn:v:51:y:2014:i:2:p:21-46
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    Keywords

    intergenerational transmission; poverty; inequality; nonfarm labor market; migration; Philippines;
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    JEL classification:

    • I30 - Health, Education, and Welfare - - Welfare, Well-Being, and Poverty - - - General
    • I24 - Health, Education, and Welfare - - Education - - - Education and Inequality
    • O17 - Economic Development, Innovation, Technological Change, and Growth - - Economic Development - - - Formal and Informal Sectors; Shadow Economy; Institutional Arrangements
    • Q15 - Agricultural and Natural Resource Economics; Environmental and Ecological Economics - - Agriculture - - - Land Ownership and Tenure; Land Reform; Land Use; Irrigation; Agriculture and Environment

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