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The World Bank has released a study on gender and labor migration.

The major finding is that when the labor migration is from a region in which there are large differences between the school leaving ages of boys and girls, and the labor migration is to a region in which there is little or no differences in the school leaving ages of boys and girls, the girls with as few as one extended family member working abroad experience a substantial increase in access to education, and a corresponding multi-year delay in first births.

The finding is for Pakistani, Turkish, and Moroccan girls, with one or more extended family members working in Europe, the United States or Canada, and for girls in the Americas, with one or more extended members working in the United States or Canada

No benefit was observed when the labor migration was to a region with equivalent (or worse) differences in the school leaving ages, e.g., girls in extended families in Egypt or Pakistan with a male relative working in Persian Gulf Monarchies.

Every person the INS shackles up and sends south has the unavoidable consequence of taking girls out of school, and lowering the age of reproduction, and increases the total birth rate. Deportation of Europeans has no equivalent effect on the condition of girls and women in Europe.

The World Bank also found that the 3% of the world population that works abroad contributes two times as much as all international public assistance towards the development of poor countries, with none of the "repatriated" money lost to weapons acquisitions or simply captured by local elites.