-country savings does not affect remittances sent home by migrants …

the Philippine peso leads to increases in household remittances received from overseas. The estimated elasticity of … Philippine-peso remittances with respect to the Philippine/foreign exchange rate is 0.60. These positive income shocks lead to …

We implement a randomized experiment offering Salvadoran migrants matching funds for educational remittances, which are … expenditures, higher private school attendance, and lower labor supply of youths in El Salvador households connected to migrant …, educational expenditures increase by $3.72. We find no shifting of expenditures away from other students, and no effect on …

We study the impacts on remittances of offering migrants temporary discounts on remittance transaction fees. We … weeks after expiration of the discount. We find no evidence that the discounts cause migrants to shift remittances from … other remittance channels, or to send remittances on behalf of other migrants. These findings are consistent with naïveté on …

This paper tests how migrants’ willingness to remit changes when given the ability to direct remittances to educational … commitment of simply labeling remittances as being for education, to the hard commitment of having funds directly paid to a … raises remittances by more than 15 percent. Adding the ability to directly send this funding to the school adds only a …

This paper distinguishes between target-earnings and life-cycle motivations for return migration by examining how … earnings, favorable exchange rate shocks have the least effect on return migration, but lead to increases in household …

experiment in the Philippines testing the impact of unilaterally facilitating international labor migration. Our most intensive … treatment doubled the rate of job offers but had no identifiable effect on international labor migration. Even the highest … conclude that unilateral migration facilitation will at most induce a trickle, not a flood, of additional emigration …