remittances via transnational networks affect human capital investments through relaxing resource constraints and facilitate … remittances on school enrollment and child work in Ecuador. Identification relies on instrumental variables, exploiting … information on source countries of remittances and regional variation in the availability of bank offices that function as formal …

This paper evaluates the welfare impact of observed levels of migration and remittances in both origins and … Jamaica or El Salvador – are also better off due to migration, but for a different reason: remittances. The quantitative …

large rise in remittances, and an increased flow of skilled migration. However, recent literature based on cross … than characteristics of their family situations explains much of the higher remittances …

home thanks to a relatively larger flow of remittances. Skilled migrants typically earn relatively more and, ceteris … flow of remittances from skilled migrants. Hence, the sign of the impact of the brain drain on total remittances is an … home out of a given flow of earnings abroad. We then derive an empirical equation of remittances and estimate it on a large …

In the past twenty years the ever-growing levels of migrants' remittances made state agencies, international … organizations, scholars and practitioners to increasingly consider remittances as one of the main engines to promote globalization … and growth in the developing world. By transferring home large amounts of money, information, ideas and practices …

and cultural diffusion mechanisms. We use the World Value Survey for 1981-2014 to build time-varying measures of cultural …-based cultural convergence, with cultural remittances as its main driver. In other words and in contrast to the populist narrative …