Using Mexico's 2002 wave of the Encuesta Nacional de Ingresos y Gastos de los Hogares (ENIGH), we find that … 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 …

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

elderly in Mexico for whom family support is an important source of income. Using data from the Mexican Income and Expenditure … mostly by reducing the probability of receiving domestic remittances. As a result, the non-labor income of beneficiaries …

terms of both consumption and leisure time. Drawing on household panel data in rural Mexico, I find that migration increases … improves left-behinds' welfare through two different channels: (i) migrants' remittances exceed their forgone income …

elderly in Mexico for whom family support is an important source of income. Using data from the Mexican Income and Expenditure … mostly by reducing the probability of receiving domestic remittances. As a result, the non-labor income of beneficiaries …

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

Using Mexico's 2002 wave of the Encuesta Nacional de Ingresos y Gastos de los Hogares (ENIGH), we find that … 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 …

migrants from Mexico, as well as from other Latin American countries, U.S. immigration policy can have a significant impact on … 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 …

countries particularly susceptible to economic hardship. We examine the role of remittances in either alleviating or increasing … causality and endogeneity and find that while income smoothing does not appear to be the main motive for sending remittances in … a non-negligible share of households, remittances do indeed smooth household income on average. Other variables …