ASSESSMENTS ON THE REMITTANCES DESTINATION FOR CHILDREN? S EDUCATION Our study identifies how remittances are used in migrants’ families and evaluates the amount of money targeted for the education of the children “left behind”. In order to carry out the analysis, we collected micro-data from a survey elaborated by the National Scientific Research Institute for Labour and Social Protection in August 2014. The survey was addressed to 300 households and showed that in general there are different "profiles" of the respondents, of the migrants, of those who sent/brought money at home and of those with children “left behind”. Our econometric model confirmed and nuanced the findings highlighted by the survey data analysis. More precisely, the attitude of migrants with children “left behind” is more careful and financially responsible, since the share of parents who send money or return with money surpasses that of remittent migrants, in total. Moreover, remittances are mainly used for daily needs and in order to support the children “left behind” to further on focus on their education. As a particularity of the “profile” shown from the survey, it seems that migrants who send money especially for school fees, school supplies, textbooks, etc. They are in general male, with low-medium education level, committed to support children and to provide them better conditions for learning, training and development. The econometric model confirms this “profile” (there is a smaller probability of migrant women to send money for tuition fees payment -65.5%) and it reinforces the claim on the responsible attitudes of migrant parents (families with larger numbers of children “left behind” spend more money on "education": the likelihood of spending remittances for school fees increases 84.7% for every more child)

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