With 250 million migrants globally, remittances are one of the major sources of income in many developing countries …. While there is abundant evidence that remittances facilitate consumption smoothing in receiving countries, the literature … the impact of remittances on the stability of household consumption, using both cross-country and household-level datasets …

This paper distinguishes between target-earnings and life-cycle motivations for return migration by examining how … earnings, favorable exchange rate shocks have the least effect on return migration, but lead to increases in household …

In this paper we document significantly steeper declines in nondurable expenditures in the UK compared to the US, in … ownership and expenses, levels and paths of health status, number of household members, and out-of -pocket medical expenditures …