Do migrants send remittances as a way of obtaining insurance? While this motive is theoretically suggested in the … risk aversion and remittance behavior. Risk-averse individuals are more likely to send remittances home and are, on average … a "purchase of self insurance" motive to remit, we also provide evidence of more remittances sent by risk averse …

large rise in remittances, and an increased flow of skilled migration. However, recent literature based on cross … than characteristics of their family situations explains much of the higher remittances. …

intervention on the value of migrant remittances sent. Our results exclude that the remittance effect we identify is a simple …

This paper evaluates the welfare impact of observed levels of migration and remittances in both origins and … Jamaica or El Salvador - are also better off due to migration, but for a different reason: remittances. The quantitative …

countries particularly susceptible to economic hardship. We examine the role of remittances in either alleviating or increasing … causality and endogeneity and find that while income smoothing does not appear to be the main motive for sending remittances in … a non-negligible share of households, remittances do indeed smooth household income on average. Other variables …

remittances to be used more effectively, and concerns about externalities from skilled workers being lost. As a result there is … number of other policies, such as lowering the cost of remittances, reducing passport costs, offering dual citizenship, and …

plans. We use a unique data source that provides unusual detail on remittances and return plans, and follows the same … household over time. Our data allows us also to distinguish between different purposes of remittances. We analyze the …, and remittances. The panel nature of our data allows us to condition on household fixed effects. To address measurement …

We investigate the relationship between remittances and migrants' education both theoretically and empirically, using … original bilateral remittance data. At a theoretical level we lay out a model of remittances interacting migrants' human … between remittances and migrants' education is ambiguous and depends on the immigration policy conducted at destination. The …