Abstract:
World literature supports the view that labor migration and remittances play
a significant role in children’s education of families left-behind although such
evidence from Sri Lanka is lacking. Therefore, by taking a nationally representative
sample of rural sector households of Sri Lanka, this study investigates the impact
of migration and remittances on school enrollment of children left-behind. The
data for this study are coming from Department of Census and Statistics and they
were analyzed using probit models. According to the results, the school enrolment
of children left-behind increases with the presence of an internal or international
migrant in the family. With respect to the remittance effect, the receipt of local
remittances shows to have a significant influence in promoting the school enrolment
of the children in rural sector.
