This paper focuses on the effects of domestic and international remittances on child labor and schooling. Using data from the 1992-1993 and 1997-1998 Vietnam Living Standards Surveys, we investigate school attendance and child labor in remittance recipient and nonrecipient households. The results of our binomial logit and two-sided censored regression panel analysis indicate that remittances increase schooling and reduce child labor. Although international remittances are found to have a stronger beneficial impact than domestic remittances in the cross-section, the panel analysis, taking account of fixed effects, reverses this result, showing that the only significant impact stems from domestic remittances. © 2016 by the Center for Migration Studies of New York. All rights reserved.

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international migration Viet Nam migrants remittance Child Welfare child labor living standard educational development household income internal migration