This paper explores the factors that account for the receipt of remittances across households in Moldova who have … recipient household and use it to interpret the determinants/motivations of remittances. Our results show that a combination of …

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 utilises survey data of return migrants to analyse the determinants of remittances sent while the migrants …

Using a recent Spanish database, we show that remittances respond to cross country differences in portfolio values … over time with the length of the migration spell, suggesting that remittances sent for portfolio motives become more likely …

' motivations are not only altruistic but also self-interested. Given that migrants' remittances and their savings are important …

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 …

the volume of remittances to the Latin American region. This paper studies how a generalized amnesty - a provision in the … country of origin, we estimate substantial post-legalization drops in remittances sent home by Mexican-born migrants who … legalized through IRCA. Given the potential positive impact of remittances on investment levels, entrepreneurship rates and the …

Migration and the consequent flow of remittances are like a double-edged sword; while keeping many out of poverty, they … Moldova and employing simultaneous equations model we show that there exists a dual causality between receipt of remittances … first to be able to specify the mechanism behind the link between remittances and migration. We find evidence that …

This study investigates the impact of remittances on credit markets in Senegal. The findings show that remittances and … credit markets are complements; namely, the receipt of remittances increases the likelihood of having a loan in a household …. This result is robust after controlling for the potential endogeneity of remittances through household fixed effects and an …

their immediate family members to the host country, and thus, send less money to the source country in remittances. While …. Together, these two results suggest a positive association between education and remittances, which is indeed, what we find in … repaying implicit educational loans) cannot completely explain the positive association between education and remittances. Our …