remittances sent to rural households on consumption-type and investment-type expenditures. We apply propensity score matching to … account for the selection of households into receiving remittances, and estimate average treatment effects on the treated. We … find that remittances supplement income in rural China and lead to increased consumption rather than increased investment …

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 …

staggering amount of remittances outflow of the GCC economies plays a stabilizing role as a tacit monetary policy tool …. Incorporating remittances in the money demand equation results in a more robust model than otherwise. We further find that 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 …

remittances sent by the emigrating parents might enable not only their children, but also others, to stop working. We show how …

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 and about 10% for the main sending countries. -- migration ; remittances ; international trade ; welfare …