eight years: the national poverty rate decreased from 26.4 percent in 2008 to 9.6 percent in 2015. Remittances by emigrants …

households with no remittances. These increased expenditures on education represent investment in human capital. Like other …"The author uses a large household data set from Guatemala to analyze how the receipt of internal remittances (from … Guatemala) and international remittances (from the United States) affects the marginal spending behavior of households on …

By putting together a relatively large data set on bilateral remittances of emigrants, this paper is able to shed light … on the important hypothesis of smoothing. The smoothing hypothesis is that remittances are countercyclical with respect … affirmation of smoothing is important for two reasons. First, it suggests that remittances should be placed on the list of …

-country savings does not affect remittances sent home by migrants …

"This paper assesses the impact of work-related migration by males on the labor market behavior of females in Nepal …' decision to participate in the labor market. The results indicate that male migration for work has a negative impact on the … both on observable and unobservable characteristics) in the impact of male migration. The findings highlight the important …

matching as well as village and household networks as instruments for remittances receipts, average estimates suggest that …"The objective of this paper is to present microeconomic evidence on the economic effects of international remittances … on households' spending decisions. Remittances can increase the household budget and reduce liquidity constraint problems …