This article reviews the economic literature on social remittances. Unlike financial remittances, which are flows of … cash or goods sent by migrants to their origin countries, social remittances refer to economic, social, political attitudes … contributed to advancing knowledge on the causal effects of migration on social remittances. The evidence reviewed in this article …

sending countries are often undervalued. But migrants may foster trade, remittances, innovations, investments back home, and …

those in the first cohort, though the policy change has no discernible effect on the level of remittances. …

survey data indicates a similar pattern for total expenditures. With reduced outward aggregate remittances from Australia …

focusing on their implications on migrant remittances flows in Tunisia and Morocco. Indeed, we analyze in which countries …, where individuals depend on remittances and where this dependence intersects with economic vulnerability and inadequate … (PCA), the results show that the decline in remittances will exacerbate economic difficulties during the crisis for …

elsewhere. Our study investigates the effect of remittances on the likelihood a household vaccinate its children against polio … isolate the effect of receiving remittances using distance and exact matching. We find that access to remittances increases ….5 percentage points. Unfortunately, remittances do not significantly improve vaccinations of girls. The results imply that …