The impact of father’s or mother’s migration on school attainment of their children left behind: An evidence from Tunisia

The goal of this presentation is to analyze the situation of children left behind "children live with one of his parents, while the other parent lives abroad". Our paper will be structured around two broad themes. The first concerns the link between migrants and their families remaining in their country of origin. The second theme focuses on the education attendance of the children left behind. We will try to examine the effects of mother’s or father’s migration on school attendance of their children.
Our methodology based on comparative analyses between male and female and between children of migrants and those of non-migrants. We developed descriptive and comparative analyses, between women and men and between countries. We conducted also multivariate analyses based on logic regression to measure the probability to leave the school. We use individual data from census 2004 and from MIREM survey conducted in 2006 by Robert Schuman Centre for Advanced Studies.