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

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 …

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 …

in Mexico due to migration. The principal hypothesis of this study is that remittances, knowledge and experience … remittances and socioeconomic conditions of the communities. In a third section the effect over time is estimated, relating per … significant relation between per capita income growth and the percentage of households that receive remittances across communities …

We examine the effect of remittances from abroad on households' schooling decisions using data for El Salvador …. Following the massive war-related emigration of the 1980's, remittances became a significant source of household income … income from a source that is uncorrelated with parental schooling remittances , we find that remittances have a large …

Using new data matching remittances and monthly payroll disbursals, we demonstrate how fluctuations in migrants …' earnings in the United Arab Emirates affect their remittances. We consider three types of income fluctuations that are … observable by families at home: seasonalities, weather shocks and a labor reform. Remittances move with all of these income …

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 …

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 …