remittances via trans-national networks affect human capital investments through relaxing resource constraints and facilitate … remittances on school enrolment and child work in Ecuador. Identification relies on instrumental variables, exploiting information … on source countries of remittances and regional variation in the availability of bank offices that function as formal …

remittances from migrants can provide additional funds for the education of the left behind. At the same time the absence of … data and matched administrative school-level public expenditures from the World Bank's Open Budget Initiative (BOOST) from … Moldova, one of the countries with the highest emigration rates in the world, and an instrumental variable approach we find …

This paper investigates the impact of financial liberalization on remittances to 84 countries over five-year intervals … reform impact remittances differently. Increased economic freedom in the financial sector, captured by absence of direct … remittances is slightly negative. Our results suggest that countries using liberalization to cope with external imbalances will …

behind, existing studies have focused on single origin countries or specific world regions. Our study is the first to offer a …-being measures (evaluations of best possible life, positive affect, stress, and depression). Drawing upon Gallup World Poll data for … 114 countries during 2009-2011, we find that both having family members abroad and receiving remittances are positively …

home thanks to a relatively larger flow of remittances. Skilled migrants typically earn relatively more and, ceteris … flow of remittances from skilled migrants. Hence, the sign of the impact of the brain drain on total remittances is an … home out of a given flow of earnings abroad. We then derive an empirical equation of remittances and estimate it on a large …

Despite the increasing importance of remittances in total international capital flows, the relationship between … remittances and growth has not been adequately studied. This paper studies one of the links between remittances and growth, in … particular how local financial sector development influences a country's capacity to take advantage of remittances Using a newly …

In this article we study the relationship between workers' remittances and fertility rate of the remittance receiving … country. We identify two main channels by which remittances transfers affect fertility. First, migrants may adopt and later … attachment to the household would be more inclined to remit money home. Therefore, remittances can be seen as a proxy for the …

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. -- Remittances ; migration ; brain …