The sending of remittances is a decentralised decision of migrant workers, nevertheless it has its macroeconomic …% for Tajikistan (38%) for Haiti (-13%). Subsequently, we explore why the extent of risk sharing through remittances is so … risk sharing via remittances: the more diverse the migration destinations of a country, higher will be the amount of risk …

This paper examines the behavior of remittances over the business cycle and their potential to act as a stabilizer … remittances depends on the motives to remit. Second, remittances are less volatile than other foreign currency flows but do not … appear to systemically co-move with business cycle fluctuations. Third, remittances are relatively stable even during …

Using a natural experiment of a rainfall-driven remittances, I provide experimental measures of how remittances affect …. Household choice of LPG and remittances are jointly related; therefore, I use the instrumental variable probit (IV …-Probit) approach. The treatment of remittances is randomly assigned to households who suffered losses due to a natural shock from the …

on the margin how to finance private adaptive expenditures and foreign remittances come into play a pivotal role in … of remittances by exploiting a natural shock wherein some households suffered damages from another second Cyclone … that for every 1,000 Taka increase in remittances receipts, private adaptive expenditures increase by 20.95 Taka. The IV …

Remittances’ effect on a household’s health outcome (e.g. Infant mortality) is ambiguous, but the impact on health … remittances into a stress test to see whether it survives the adverse impact of climate change. Using a natural experiment of … rainfall-driven remittances, we provide an experimental measure for remittances’ effect on the health expenditure among rural …