Migration, Economic Crisis and Child Growth in Rural Guatemala : Insights from the Great Recession

Migration, Economic Crisis and Child Growth in Rural Guatemala : Insights from the Great Recession

Migration has been demonstrated by various studies to be closely linked to improvements in individual- and household-level outcomes. Rather than examining the effects of migration, this paper explores whether an economic shock in United States nega...

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Main Authors: Carletto, Calogero, Maluccio, John A., Shrestha, Savant Man, Stewart, Mackenzie F.
Format: Working Paper
Language:English
Published: World Bank, Washington, DC 2021
Subjects:
MIGRATION
CHILD GROWTH
STUNTING
2008 GREAT RECESSION
REMITTANCES
ECONOMIC SHOCK
Online Access:http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/932541627310242741/Migration-Economic-Crisis-and-Child-Growth-in-Rural-Guatemala-Insights-from-the-Great-Recession
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spelling okr-10986-360342021-07-30T05:10:34Z Migration, Economic Crisis and Child Growth in Rural Guatemala : Insights from the Great Recession Carletto, Calogero Maluccio, John A. Shrestha, Savant Man Stewart, Mackenzie F. MIGRATION CHILD GROWTH STUNTING 2008 GREAT RECESSION REMITTANCES ECONOMIC SHOCK Migration has been demonstrated by various studies to be closely linked to improvements in individual- and household-level outcomes. Rather than examining the effects of migration, this paper explores whether an economic shock in United States negatively affected migrant households in rural Guatemala. Treating the Great Recession as a natural experiment affecting migrant and non-migrant households differently, the paper puts the spotlight on the effect on child anthropometry, including longer-term indicators of height-for-age z-scores. Panel data on children and multiple children in households enable double- and triple-difference estimation. In relative terms, migrant households fared far worse than non-migrant households over the period. In particular, large advantages in child anthropometric status for the youngest children in migrant households in 2008, just prior to the crisis, were substantially diminished four years later. The findings underscore the possible fragility of the benefits of migration, particularly in the face of a substantial economic shock, and point to the potential importance of deepening social safety nets. 2021-07-29T12:16:24Z 2021-07-29T12:16:24Z 2021-07 Working Paper http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/932541627310242741/Migration-Economic-Crisis-and-Child-Growth-in-Rural-Guatemala-Insights-from-the-Great-Recession http://hdl.handle.net/10986/36034 English Policy Research Working Paper;No. 9734 CC BY 3.0 IGO http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/igo World Bank World Bank, Washington, DC Publications & Research Publications & Research :: Policy Research Working Paper Latin America & Caribbean Guatemala
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topic MIGRATION
CHILD GROWTH
STUNTING
2008 GREAT RECESSION
REMITTANCES
ECONOMIC SHOCK
spellingShingle MIGRATION
CHILD GROWTH
STUNTING
2008 GREAT RECESSION
REMITTANCES
ECONOMIC SHOCK
Carletto, Calogero
Maluccio, John A.
Shrestha, Savant Man
Stewart, Mackenzie F.
Migration, Economic Crisis and Child Growth in Rural Guatemala : Insights from the Great Recession
geographic_facet Latin America & Caribbean
Guatemala
relation Policy Research Working Paper;No. 9734
description Migration has been demonstrated by various studies to be closely linked to improvements in individual- and household-level outcomes. Rather than examining the effects of migration, this paper explores whether an economic shock in United States negatively affected migrant households in rural Guatemala. Treating the Great Recession as a natural experiment affecting migrant and non-migrant households differently, the paper puts the spotlight on the effect on child anthropometry, including longer-term indicators of height-for-age z-scores. Panel data on children and multiple children in households enable double- and triple-difference estimation. In relative terms, migrant households fared far worse than non-migrant households over the period. In particular, large advantages in child anthropometric status for the youngest children in migrant households in 2008, just prior to the crisis, were substantially diminished four years later. The findings underscore the possible fragility of the benefits of migration, particularly in the face of a substantial economic shock, and point to the potential importance of deepening social safety nets.
format Working Paper
author Carletto, Calogero
Maluccio, John A.
Shrestha, Savant Man
Stewart, Mackenzie F.
author_facet Carletto, Calogero
Maluccio, John A.
Shrestha, Savant Man
Stewart, Mackenzie F.
author_sort Carletto, Calogero
title Migration, Economic Crisis and Child Growth in Rural Guatemala : Insights from the Great Recession
title_short Migration, Economic Crisis and Child Growth in Rural Guatemala : Insights from the Great Recession
title_full Migration, Economic Crisis and Child Growth in Rural Guatemala : Insights from the Great Recession
title_fullStr Migration, Economic Crisis and Child Growth in Rural Guatemala : Insights from the Great Recession
title_full_unstemmed Migration, Economic Crisis and Child Growth in Rural Guatemala : Insights from the Great Recession
title_sort migration, economic crisis and child growth in rural guatemala : insights from the great recession
publisher World Bank, Washington, DC
publishDate 2021
url http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/932541627310242741/Migration-Economic-Crisis-and-Child-Growth-in-Rural-Guatemala-Insights-from-the-Great-Recession
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