ambiguous net effects on decisions about work, investment, and education. These net effects, and their mechanisms, are poorly … with standard observational estimators. It finds large effects on spending, borrowing, and human capital investment, but no … effects on saving or entrepreneurship. Remittances appear to overwhelm household splitting as a causal mechanism …

behind through remittances. However, splitting up families in this way may also have multiple adverse effects on education …

greater benefits for all parties concerned -- migrant-sending countries, migrant-receiving countries, and the migrants …