A study on the influence of OFW parents on children’s education
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2022-06-13
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This paper seeks to establish the influence of Filipino parents working abroad on their child’s educational attainment. In order to accomplish this, we look into the principal
factors that affect a child’s education according to established literature; this includes sex, income, parent’s education, and public spending on education. Then we look at the
nature of overseas workers, specifically overseas contract workers in the Philippines. We hypothesize that OFWs will positively influence their children’s educational attainment.
Data from the Family Income and Expenditure Survey (FIES) and the Labor Force
Survey (LFS) is then used to serve as the data points for this study. We then run a logit
regression on the difference of the child’s educational attainment with the household
head’s educational attainment against the principal factors, working abroad variable, and
interaction variables. From this, we find that past literature on the effects of sex, income,
public spending, and parent’s education are true. Furthermore, we also find that the
presence of a parent working abroad increases the likelihood that the child will have the
same or higher educational attainment than the household head. After which,
recommendations for future research on this field are annotated.
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OFW, education