Open AccessThe Influence of Remittances on Education and Health Outcomes: an Analysis for South Asian Countries
Author(s) -
Sana Ullah,
Muhammad Tariq Majeed,
Adiqa Kausar Kiani
Publication year - 2019
Publication title -
jinnah business review
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2307-7921
pISSN - 2070-0296
DOI - 10.53369/hcfw1655
Subject(s) - life expectancy , educational attainment , demographic economics , standard of living , health indicator , fertility , total fertility rate , south asia , developing country , expectancy theory , economic growth , economics , socioeconomics , environmental health , medicine , sociology , health care , population , family planning , research methodology , market economy , ethnology , management
Remittances all over the world play significant role in improving the standard of living of the people in general. Broadly it is difficult to analyze all the characteristics of life standards and, usually researcher look at the educational or health indicators, which are the major concerns of every household. In this study, we also explored the effect of international remittances on educational and health indicators for selected South Asian countries. Our findings show that remittances play a vital role in enhancing health attainment for instance, escalating life expectancy, slashing infant mortality and fertility rate. The Two-Stage Least Square (2SLS) technique has been applied. Upshots of our study suggest that flow of remittances is one of the significant sources for economic development. It is viewed that high migration rate effect only health variables but a little improvement has been observed for educational attainment in South Asian region