This paper reexamines the literature on the impact of migration on household members left behind at origin. The … empirical problem previous studies address is the self-selection of households into migration, i.e. the endogenous decision as …, 1994; Rubin, 1974). I show that the point-identification of the causal impact of migration requires strong behavioral …

This paper examines the effect of international migration on the welfare of family members left behind at the origin …. Previous literature has produced inconclusive evidence, with some studies suggesting that migration reduces income poverty … provides a new unified framework that generates testable predictions of whether migration increases non-migrants' welfare in …

According to the World Bank, in 2017, an estimated 450 billion US dollars in remittances were sent to Low and Middle … Income Countries. This means that the sum of remittances is more than three times larger than the sum of the world's total … official aid to the same countries. The practice of sending remittances can be seen as one specific thing that migrants do as …

This article analyses the distributional impact of remittances across two regions of Algerian emigration (Nedroma and … Idjeur) using an original survey we conducted of 1,200 households in 2011. Remittances and especially the role played by … large as Nedroma. At the same time, they help reduce poverty by nearly 13 percentage points. Remittances have a strong …

This paper investigates the relationship between international migration, remittances and human capital investment in … remittances a household receives and the amount of expenditures allocated to education (for all levels of education). We consider … Kenya. We use household level data from the 2009 Kenya Migration Household Survey (produced by the Africa Migration Project …

This paper examines UK migration policy and recent migration flows from Eastern Partnership (EaP) countries to the UK … for increased migration from the EaP countries to help fill skill gaps, it seems very unlikely that the UK will allow …

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

-by-year fixed effects. The results are also consistent after employing comprehensive measures of connectedness, employing matching …