Resumen de Passing by the Girls? Remittance Allocation for Educational Expenditures and Social Inequality in Nepal's Households 2003-2004.

Ann Vogel, Kim Korinek

• We examine the utilization of remittances for expenditures associated with development, specifically children's education. We use household-level data from the Nepal Living Standards Survey (NLSS II, 2003-04) to separate remittance effects from general household income effects to demonstrate the migration-development relationship reflected in child schooling investment. We find that family-household remittances are spent on education of children, but the expenditures are disproportionately for boys' schooling. Only when girls are members of higher-income households do greater schooling expenditures go to them. This gender-discriminating pattern at the household level contrasts with the call for universal and gender-equal education. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]