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 …

A renewed interest in explaining growth in the Caribbean countries is motivated by the somewhat slow but uneven … performance in the past decade: per capita GDP gaps in Caribbean countries have widened in relation to the United States, whereas …

Caribbean Islands are exposed to hurricanes, the damages of which are projected to intensify due to anthropogenic … debt. We investigate what the typical impact of Caribbean hurricanes on public debt in the region has been and how …

effects of climate change on sovereign creditworthiness, probability of default and the cost of borrowing for the Caribbean …

Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC) is one of the regions most exposed and vulnerable to climate-related risks, with …

This study presents new findings on the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on productivity and innovation for Caribbean …