Catalina Amuedo-Dorantes and Susan Pozo examined the relationship between remittances and family migration and its impact on children's school attendance in a study conducted in the Dominican Republic. Amuedo-Dorantes and Pozo chose the Dominican Republic for two reasons, various emigration and remittance-receiving patterns which allow for isolation between the remittance and migration effects. By obtaining from two samples, non-migrant and migrant households, they found that a 10% increase in remittances receipt increased children's school attendance by 3%. However, the overall effect of the remittance effect may disappears due to the overpowering negative impact of the migration effect in play. Amuedo-Dorantes and Pozo expanded on the hardships of emigration and its impact on children's responsibility within the household. It is believed that policies aimed to increase remittance flows would further improve the countries impacted by migration out of the country.
