the analysis of the effects of paternal migration and remittances on the children left behind. First, it can give rise to …We provide evidence that the occurrence of an international migration episode is associated with a variation in the … living arrangements of the household members left behind. The migration of a married Mexican man typically induces his spouse …

Do migrants send remittances as a way of obtaining insurance? While this motive is theoretically suggested in the … risk aversion and remittance behavior. Risk-averse individuals are more likely to send remittances home and are, on average … a "purchase of self-insurance" motive to remit, we also provide evidence of more remittances sent by risk averse …

Research on the relationship between high-skilled migration and remittances has been limited by the lack of suitable …. Our results reveal that migrants' education has no significant impact on the likelihood of sending remittances …. Conditional on sending remittances, however, high-skilled migrants send significantly higher amounts of money to their households …

official aid to the same countries. The practice of sending remittances can be seen as one specific thing that migrants do as … support family members and friends in their country of origin living under more difficult economic conditions. Remittances may … remittances and official development aid. Migrants' propensity to remit will also be increasingly relevant for Sweden …

This paper reexamines the literature on the impact of migration on household members left behind at origin. The … empirical problem previous studies address is the self-selection of households into migration, i.e. the endogenous decision as … to whether or not send a migrant. Yet, the subsequent selection of which family members migrate and which stay behind …

Using novel information from the German Socio-Economic Panel for the period 1996-2011, we document that migrants with a …

We document the educational integration of immigrant children with a focus on the link between family size and … groups. First, for immigrant adolescents, we show family-size adjusted convergence to almost native levels of higher … that between one third and the complete difference in family-size adjusted educational outcomes between immigrants from …

marital disruption on data from the nationally – representative 2009 Family and Social Subjects survey. We found that the … separation risks among natives, especially for couples with lower human capital. Our findings add to our understanding of family …

In nationally representative household data from the 2008 wave of the Rural to Urban Migration in China survey, nearly … two thirds of rural-urban migrants found their employment through family members, relatives, friends or acquaintances …. This paper investigates why the use of social network to find jobs is so prevalent among rural-urban migrants in China, and …