We implement a randomized experiment offering Salvadoran migrants matching funds for educational remittances, which are … remittances. …

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 …

differences, international trade, remittances, and a heterogeneous workforce. We compare welfare under the observed levels of … Canada or Australia - are better off due to greater product variety available in consumption and as intermediate inputs. In … unskilled natives tend to experience welfare changes of opposite signs. The remaining natives in countries with large emigration …

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 …

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 …

heterogeneous) changes in exchange rates due to the 1997 Asian financial crisis. Appreciation of a migrant%u2019s currency against … the Philippine 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 …

the Asian financial crisis). Overall, the evidence favors the life-cycle explanation: more favorable exchange rate shocks …

to higher education (brain gain). If emigration is uncertain and some of the highly educated remain, such a channel may …