This paper analyses the impact of remittances on household expenditure behaviour in Senegal. We use propensity score … matching and OLS methods to assess the average impact of remittances on several household budget shares. Our results show a … productive use of international remittances in Senegal. However, the impact of remittances disappears when the marginal spending …

We study the relationship between migration and children's education in Tajikistan – one of the poorest and most … of family members is negatively associated with children's school attendance. Receiving remittances does not offset this … Tajikistan has a negative signaling effect on the education of children staying behind …

This article analyses the distributional impact of remittances across two regions of Algerian emigration (Nedroma and … Idjeur) using an original survey we conducted of 1,200 households in 2011. Remittances and especially the role played by … large as Nedroma. At the same time, they help reduce poverty by nearly 13 percentage points. Remittances have a strong …

remittances sent to rural households on consumption-type and investment-type expenditures. We apply propensity score matching to … account for the selection of households into receiving remittances, and estimate average treatment effects on the treated. We … find that remittances supplement income in rural China and lead to increased consumption rather than increased investment …

Women who want to work often face many more hurdles than men. This is true in Tajikistan where there is a large gender … education and migration have a significant association with the gender gap in labour force participation in Tajikistan …. International emigration from Tajikistan, in which approximately 93.5% of the participants are men, reduces labour force …

We examine how the forsaken schooling phenomenon in migration evolved over time in Tajikistan. After completing … compulsory schooling at ages 16-17, young men in Tajikistan are forsaking professional education because of opportunities to … to professional education in migrant-sending Tajikistan …

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 … households without migrants (without remittances) to provide monetary transfers to others, but less likely to receive monetary …

This paper investigates the relationship between international migration, remittances and human capital investment in … remittances a household receives and the amount of expenditures allocated to education (for all levels of education). We consider …