When the Cat’s Away The Effects of Spousal Migration on Investments on Children
研究了父母一方迁移时家庭对子女支出的变化，发现母亲迁移时父亲会减少子女支出，但母亲通过放弃自身消费和增加汇款来补偿，使子女支出份额不变。
Household expenditures for children-related goods may change when one of the parent migrates and do so differently depending on whether it is the mother or the father that leaves. A sequential model that explains migration and budget allocation choices is proposed and its predictions are tested on data from Indonesia. Selection of households into female migration is accounted for using a set of instrumental variables derived from the model. Results show that when children are left with fathers, the household budget is significantly diverted toward the purchase of adult private goods, but the share of budget devoted to children remains unaffected because mothers compensate by giving up their own private consumption and sending home more remittances.