is the correct specification for the analysis of migrants' savings and remittances rather than the conventional Tobit …This paper investigates the determinants of migrants' financial transfers to their home country using German data. A …. Moreover, while the effect of the household size on migrants' transfers abroad turns out to be significantly negative …

differences disappear, however, for temporary migrants, if their remittances are taken into account. Fixed effects estimations of … differences between temporary and permanent migrants. Utilizing household level data from the German Socio-Economic Panel (GSOEP … the determinants of immigrants' savings rates reveal that intended return migration does not only affect remittances, but …

This paper explores the factors that account for the receipt of remittances across households in Moldova who have … migrants abroad. Unlike most of the existing literature, we approach our research question from the perspective of the … recipient household and use it to interpret the determinants/motivations of remittances. Our results show that a combination of …

how culture manifests itself in the migration process for three groups of actors: the migrants, those remaining in the …

We investigate the relationship between remittances and migrants' education both theoretically and empirically, using … original bilateral remittance data. At a theoretical level we lay out a model of remittances interacting migrants' human … between remittances and migrants' education is ambiguous and depends on the immigration policy conducted at destination. The …

This paper explores the existence of network effects in migrants' remittance behavior. In this study, networks are …

entrepreneurship. Remittances appear to overwhelm household splitting as a causal mechanism …

that migrants and non-migrants are likely to differ in unobservable ways that also affect children's educational outcomes … dollars from U.S. migrant remittances appear to enable families to further educate their daughters. Thus, policymakers should …

Using a recent Spanish database, we show that remittances respond to cross country differences in portfolio values … we would expect given migrants' diverse backgrounds and motives for emigrating. Additionally, remitting patterns change … over time with the length of the migration spell, suggesting that remittances sent for portfolio motives become more likely …

households without migrants (without remittances) to provide monetary transfers to others, but less likely to receive monetary … communities of developing countries. A priori, it is indeterminate whether migration and remittances strengthen or weaken the … Kyrgyzstan, we find that households with migrant members (as well as households receiving remittances) are more likely than …