Channeling Remittances to Education: A Field Experiment among Migrants from El Salvador
通过随机实验，向萨尔瓦多移民提供教育汇款匹配资金，发现每收到1美元，受益学生教育支出增加3.72美元，并提高了私立学校入学率、降低了青年劳动供给。
We implement a randomized experiment offering Salvadoran migrants matching funds for educational remittances, which are channeled directly to a beneficiary student in El Salvador chosen by the migrant. The matches lead to increased educational expenditures, higher private school attendance, and lower labor supply of youths in El Salvador households connected to migrant study participants. We find substantial "crowd-in" of educational investments: for each $1 received by beneficiaries, educational expenditures increase by $3.72. We find no shifting of expenditures away from other students, and no effect on remittances.