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 …

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 …

Recent theoretical and empirical studies have emphasized the fact that the prospect of international migration … that temporary migration is widespread among highly skilled migrants (such as Eastern Europeans in Western Europe and … for return migration and which predicts who will migrate and who will return among agents with heterogeneous abilities. We …

-specific premium for migration and return for three typical destinations of Romanian migrants after 1990. We find evidence for a … sorting of migrants consistent with skill compensation in destination countries. The premium to return migration increases … with migrants' skills and drives the positive selection of returnees. Based on the rationality of these migration decisions …

flows - such as Jamaica or El Salvador - are also better off due to migration, but for a different reason: remittances. The …This paper evaluates the global welfare impact of observed levels of migration using a quantitative multi-sector model … differences, international trade, remittances, and a heterogeneous workforce. We compare welfare under the observed levels of …

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 …

evidence suggests that migration plays an important role in the formation of international networks. Approximately 40 percent …