intervention on the value of migrant remittances sent. Our results exclude that the remittance effect we identify is a simple …

There is considerable debate regarding the relative contribution of international migrants’ remittances to sustainable … economic development. While the rates and levels of officially recorded remittances to developing countries has increased … enormously over the last decade, academic and policy-oriented research has not come to a consensus over whether remittances …

, brought about by migration, with huge statistical observed positive effects of received worker remittances on smart human …

We theorise that remittances to persons outside the households represent transfers to maintain social relations with … relatives and friends and charitable remittances are expenditures which foster group membership. We estimate transfer functions … as part of a larger expenditure system and calculate Engel elasticities for remittances to persons and to charities. We …

, remittances are higher if close relatives live in the sending country. Finally, Vuong-tests indicate that the double-hurdle model … is the correct specification for the analysis of migrants' savings and remittances rather than the conventional Tobit …

This paper focuses on the effects of domestic and international remittances on children's well-being. Using data from … remittance recipient and non-recipient households. The results of our cross-section and panel analyses indicate that remittances … increase schooling and reduce child labour. Although international remittances are found to have a stronger beneficial impact …

remittances to be used more effectively, and concerns about externalities from skilled workers being lost. As a result there is … number of other policies, such as lowering the cost of remittances, reducing passport costs, offering dual citizenship, and …