It is often assumed that international labor migration from Tajikistan, while having no noticeable effects on … on household consumption patterns, albeit being rather small, actually speak in favour of investment of remittances, with …

This paper explores the impact of international migration on school enrollment of children staying behind in Tajikistan … nonreceiving households, and households with migrant parents to single out the impact of migration and remittances. The results … other household members. Receiving remittances reduces the adverse impact of migration by only 1-3 percentage points. The …

We study how migration affects education of girls in Tajikistan - the poorest post-Soviet state and one of the most … remittances. In contrast, school attendance of teenage girls (ages 12-17) falls when siblings migrate, while parental migration … and remittances have no effect. Having a grandmother as the head of household after parents (typically fathers) migrate …

yet firmly established the effect of remittances on household welfare. We investigate the case of Tajikistan, one of the … instrumental variable estimation to confirm a positive relationship between receiving remittances and household welfare after … correcting for endogeneity. Moreover, we find that the effect of remittances on household spending is more pronounced in …

We analyze the impact of remittances on the labor supply of men and women in post-conflict Tajikistan. Individuals from … results are robust to different measures of remittances and migration. When we differentiate between regions by their exposure … to the 1992-1998 armed conflict, we observe that the negative effect of remittances on the labor supply of women is …

Having a family member migrant reduces not only the labor force participation but also the job satisfaction of those … wage distribution in the destination country either from the size of remittances or directly from migrants. If their … estimations to Tajikistan’s data, as well as with controlling for an endogeneity issue with the variable of interest, we estimate …

This paper analyzes the impact of remittances on the labor supply of men and women in post-conflict Tajikistan. We find … supply fewer hours when they do. The negative effect of remittances on labor supply is smaller for women, which is an … intriguing result as other studies on remittances and labor supply (primarily focused on Latin America) have shown that female …

use remittances, informal loans, or assets as ex post risk-coping mechanisms. Since these households have limited access … on their networks of family and friends to partially insure their consumption. 2SLS and OLS estimates show that … approximately 27 percent of consumption is insured. International remittances from migrant members replace about 11 percent of …

by immigrants. We theorise that remittances to persons outside the households represent transfers to maintain social … relations with relatives and friends and religious/charitable remittances are expenditures which foster group membership. Using … remittances to persons and to charities by both the Canadian and foreign-born populations. We conclude that expenditures to …

motivation in the framework of extended family agreements, we embed remittances in a formal demand system, suggesting that they … analysing the determinants of remittances. -- international migration ; household behaviour ; remittances …