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 …

-household migration to high-wage jobs in Korea. This allows unusually reliable measurement of the reduced-form effect of these overseas … entrepreneurship. Remittances appear to overwhelm household splitting as a causal mechanism …

their immediate family members to the host country, and thus, send less money to the source country in remittances. While … less likely to sponsor relatives, presumably because of relatively higher opportunity cost of migration of their relatives …. Together, these two results suggest a positive association between education and remittances, which is indeed, what we find in …

those in the first cohort, though the policy change has no discernible effect on the level of remittances …

This paper makes two contributions to the literature on the determinants of international migration flows. First, we … compile a new dataset on annual bilateral migration flows covering 15 OECD destination countries and 120 sending countries for … our destination countries over this period. Second, we extend the empirical model of migration choice across multiple …