This paper reexamines the literature on the impact of migration on household members left behind at origin. The … empirical problem previous studies address is the self-selection of households into migration, i.e. the endogenous decision as … to whether or not send a migrant. Yet, the subsequent selection of which family members migrate and which stay behind …

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 …Culture is not new to the study of migration. It has lurked beneath the surface for some time, occasionally protruding … migration as an economic phenomenon; but what about them matters? Properly, we should be looking at the determinants of identity …

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 …

-household migration to high-wage jobs in Korea. This allows unusually reliable measurement of the reduced-form effect of these overseas … entrepreneurship. Remittances appear to overwhelm household splitting as a causal mechanism …

Estimation of the causal effect of parental migration on children's educational attainment is complicated by the fact … that migrants and non-migrants are likely to differ in unobservable ways that also affect children's educational outcomes …. This paper suggests a novel way of addressing this selection problem by looking within the family to exploit variation in …

over time with the length of the migration spell, suggesting that remittances sent for portfolio motives become more likely …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 …

communities of developing countries. A priori, it is indeterminate whether migration and remittances strengthen or weaken the … households without migrants (without remittances) to provide monetary transfers to others, but less likely to receive monetary …We study how international migration changes the private transfers made between households in the migrant sending …

quantitatively assess the role of communication between migrants and their contacts abroad on the extent and value of remittance … flows. In the experiment, a random sample of 1,500 migrants residing in Ireland was offered the possibility of contacting … intervention on the value of migrant remittances sent. Our results exclude that the remittance effect we identify is a simple …