This working paper studies the effect of remittances from the United States on crime rates in Mexico. The topic is … examined using municipal-level data on the percent of household receiving remittances and homicides per 100,000 inhabitants …. Remittances are found to be associated with a decrease in homicide rates. Every 1 percent increase in the number of households …

We identify whether remittances facilitate consumption smoothing during health shocks in Jamaica. In addition, we … investigate whether remittances are subject to moral hazard by receivers, how the informal insurance provided by remittances … remittances offer complete insurance toward decreased consumption during health shocks and that moral hazard is weak. The role of …

Remittances constitute a significant safety net for millions of households in Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC … of remittances. The recovery of remittances was accompanied by a modest and temporary increase in the interest in digital …

. Surprisingly, we found that the differences in income by education level declined in most cases. Remittances had a modest effect …

and unambiguously assert that trade openness is conducive to growth and poverty reduction, the preponderance of evidence … supports this conclusion. However, the majority of empirical studies also show that the impact of trade on growth and poverty …

poverty. Drawing on data from Mexico's Adultos Mayores Program (Older Adults Program) --a cash transfer scheme aimed at rural …

of poverty rates and inequality levels. We also estimate a heterogeneous response to the mining-abundant condition …, finding stronger responses in lower-poverty, higher-inequality districts. Finally, we find a trend suggesting incremental … activities, on the reduction of poverty and inequality. …