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作者

Vicente Royuela;Juan Pablo Díaz-Sánchez;Javier Romaní

来源

HABITAT INTERNATIONAL,Vol.93,P.102030

语言

英文

关键字

International migration;Household overcrowding;Ecuador;C25;D10;I31;J61;R21

作者单位

AQR-IREA Research Group, Universitat de Barcelona, Spain;Escuela Politécnica Nacional, Facultad de Ciencias, Quito, Ecuador;AQR-IREA Research Group, Universitat de Barcelona, Spain;Escuela Politécnica Nacional, Facultad de Ciencias, Quito, Ecuador

摘要

This paper reports an investigation of the effects of international migration on left-behind household overcrowding levels in Ecuador, a traditional migrating country. To do so, we use the universe of the Ecuadorian population collected in the Census of Population and Dwelling 2010. Using an instrumental variable regression model, we find a negative association between international migration and the overcrowding level of such household. Additionally, we verify the key role of remittances in order to ameliorate the overcrowding in the left-behind.