We theorise that remittances to persons outside the households represent transfers to maintain social relations with … relatives and friends and charitable remittances are expenditures which foster group membership. We estimate transfer functions … as part of a larger expenditure system and calculate Engel elasticities for remittances to persons and to charities. We …

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 …

international remittances raise health care expenditures. Approximately 6 pesos of every 100 peso increment in remittance income are … spent on health. The sensitivity of health care expenditures to variations in the level of international remittances is … analyze the impact of remittances by health care coverage. As expected, we find that households with some kind of health care …

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 … 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 … as the immediate needs of family left back home are addressed and immigrants settle down in their host communities …

' 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 …