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To test whether transfers sent and received by regional migrants serve an insurance role, this paper estimates the causal impact of income shocks at a migrant's origin and destination location on the bilateral transfer of funds. Using rainfall shocks in rural Nicaragua, I find that migrants aged...
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This paper analyses the impact of remittances on household expenditure behaviour in Senegal. We use propensity score … matching and OLS methods to assess the average impact of remittances on several household budget shares. Our results show a … productive use of international remittances in Senegal. However, the impact of remittances disappears when the marginal spending …
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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 …
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improves left-behinds' welfare through two different channels: (i) migrants' remittances exceed their forgone income …
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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 … analyze the impact of remittances by health care coverage. As expected, we find that households with some kind of health care …
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A sizable literature has concluded that remittances impact the expenditure patterns of households. We explore how the …
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remittance-sending countries. We first find that receiving remittances has no significant effect on child labour on average …. However, when the disruptive effect from the absence of a family member is ruled out, remittances significantly reduce child … significant age effect: remittances affect the labour market participation of younger children only, suggesting a progressive …
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remittance-sending countries. We first find that receiving remittances has no significant effect on child labour on average …. However, when the disruptive effect from the absence of a family member is ruled out, remittances significantly reduce child … significant age effect: remittances affect the labour market participation of younger children only, suggesting a progressive …
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Retired parents might invest time into their adult children by providing childcare. Such intergenerational time transfers can have important implications for family decisions. This paper estimates the effects of parental retirement on adult children's fertility. We use representative panel data...
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; (ii) providing remittances that fund start-ups in their countries of origin and (iii) returning entrepreneurial skills to …
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