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 …

remittances sent to rural households on consumption-type and investment-type expenditures. We apply propensity score matching to …This paper investigates how private transfers from internal migration in China affect the expenditure behaviour of … families left behind in rural areas. Using data from the Rural-Urban Migration in China (RUMiC) survey, we assess the impact of …

matching and OLS methods to assess the average impact of remittances on several household budget shares. Our results show a …This paper analyses the impact of remittances on household expenditure behaviour in Senegal. We use propensity score … productive use of international remittances in Senegal. However, the impact of remittances disappears when the marginal spending …

beneficiaries relative to non-eligible families. The findings suggest that after the introduction of the program, expenditures on …

methods of measuring household welfare (and, accordingly, poverty and inequality) based on expenditures have not considered …

international remittances raise health care expenditures. Approximately 6 pesos of every 100 peso increment in remittance income are … spent on health. The sensitivity of health care expenditures to variations in the level of international remittances is … care than households lacking any health care coverage. Hence, remittances may help equalize health care expenditures across …

A sizable literature has concluded that remittances impact the expenditure patterns of households. We explore how the … of household expenditures on asset accumulation by 4 to 9 percent. These results suggest that both the level and the …

Culture is not new to the study of migration. It has lurked beneath the surface for some time, occasionally protruding … how culture manifests itself in the migration process for three groups of actors: the migrants, those remaining in the … migration as an economic phenomenon; but what about them matters? Properly, we should be looking at the determinants of identity …