-country savings does not affect remittances sent home by migrants …We implemented a randomized field experiment that tested ways to stimulate savings by international migrants in their … origin country. We find that migrants value and take advantage of opportunities to exert greater control over financial …

By putting together a relatively large data set on bilateral remittances of emigrants, this paper is able to shed light … on the important hypothesis of smoothing. The smoothing hypothesis is that remittances are countercyclical with respect … affirmation of smoothing is important for two reasons. First, it suggests that remittances should be placed on the list of …

This paper analyzes earnings inequality and earnings dynamics in Sweden over 1985-2016. The deep recession in the early …

We build a nationally representative sample of retirement savers in Sweden to study how asymmetric updating of beliefs …

benefits as well as costs. Among the former, one of the most important is lower costs for migrants' remittances. Some of the …

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 enhanced human … capital accumulation and entrepreneurship in migrants' origin households. Child schooling and educational expenditure rise …

in Mexico due to migration. The principal hypothesis of this study is that remittances, knowledge and experience … acquired by migrants during their migratory cycle, can be translated into larger economic growth in the out migration … remittances and socioeconomic conditions of the communities. In a third section the effect over time is estimated, relating per …