The link between remittances and and education in Cape Verde

• Autor(es): Santos, Edmiges Claudino Borges dos
• Data: 2013
• Identificador Persistente: http://hdl.handle.net/10362/11601
• Origem: Repositório Institucional da UNL
• Assunto(s): Remittances; Education; Cape Verde; Migration
• Tipo de Documento: Dissertação de Mestrado
• Idioma: Inglês
• Orientador(es): Vicente, Pedro

Descrição

A Work Project, presented as part of the requirements for the Award of a Masters Degree in Economics from the NOVA – School of Business and Economics In this study I examine the impact of remittances in school attendance in Cape Verde. Using the data from a household survey carried out in Cape Verde, I found that there is a positive and statistically significant relationship between remittances and education and that this relation gets stronger as the level of education increases. Poor institutions appear to be a constraint for families to fully benefit from the high potential of remittances.