migrants. We use migration aspiration data from the Gallup World Poll Surveys which provide the preferred location choices of … Mexico but would also create heterogeneous immigration pressures from Mexico across potential foreign locations. In …

The paper considers whether structural reforms have a different impact on adjusted household disposable income (AHDI …

This paper studies the distribution of U.S. household income and wealth over the past seven decades. We introduce a … newly compiled household-level dataset based on archival data from historical waves of the Survey of Consumer Finances (SCF … between the 25th and 75th percentile of the distribution. The household data also reveal that the paths of income and wealth …

welfare effect of future income uncertainty. We build a model of remittances and savings under income uncertainty and show … that an immigrant will increase his remittances in response to a first-order risk decrease in future income. Using changes … prediction of our model using panel data of bilateral remittances. Our theoretical prediction is supported by the data: there is …

Empirical evidence that migrants send home more remittances after disasters raises the question of whether remittances … remittances, which supports the idea that remittances act as (self-) insurance. We also show that purchasing formal funeral cover … insurance. -- remittances ; insurance ; risk management strategies …

This paper studies the effect of emigration on gender norms in countries of migrants' origin. We use an instrumental … the provided evidence we argue that this effect is channelled through "cultural remittances". …