This paper examines two issues associated with the impact of migration on household income and poverty. First, existing … corrected impact is shown to be three to five times larger for income and two to three times larger for poverty than is obtained … corrected for the change in household size. -- migration ; income ; poverty ; underestimation ; reference groups …

causal impact of income shocks at a migrant's origin and destination location on the bilateral transfer of funds. Using …

family members leads to lower remittance. Furthermore, we show that college educated immigrants from high-income families are … the data. Our extended analysis shows that alternative explanations (such as higher income of more educated immigrants, or …

impact of remittances for households at different levels of the conditional expenditure distribution. Furthermore, in tracing … of the conditional distribution of household expenditure, with the impact being the greatest up to the 12th quantile … expenditure distribution until the 89th quantile, whereupon it drops sharply. As such, households lying between the 13th to the 35 …

. Therefore, in the decision on how to allocate expenditure, remittances are treated just as any other source of income. …This paper analyses the impact of remittances on household expenditure behaviour in Senegal. We use propensity score …