to established ethnic networks, and acquired more years of pre-migration schooling. Using a doubly robust treatment … effect estimator and the IV method, the study finds that the endogenous post-migration education in the host country …

; (ii) providing remittances that fund start-ups in their countries of origin and (iii) returning entrepreneurial skills to … general development contribution of migration over and above its contribution through entrepreneurship. The implication is …

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 …

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 … negative effect. Migration of non-parent family members (such as siblings) is particularly detrimental to school attendance …

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 …

Do migrants send remittances as a way of obtaining insurance? While this motive is theoretically suggested in the … risk aversion and remittance behavior. Risk-averse individuals are more likely to send remittances home and are, on average … a purchase of self-insurance motive to remit, we also provide evidence of more remittances sent by risk averse …

. Migration and remittances may thus be contributing to informal employment in migration-sending countries. …This paper studies the effects of remittances on informal employment in the migrants' countries of origin, looking both … transition economies in 2009, I find that receiving remittances increases the likelihood of working informally. At the regional …

This paper examines the effect of international migration on the welfare of family members left behind at the origin …. Previous literature has produced inconclusive evidence, with some studies suggesting that migration reduces income poverty … provides a new unified framework that generates testable predictions of whether migration increases non-migrants' welfare in …

Research on the relationship between high-skilled migration and remittances has been limited by the lack of suitable …. Our results reveal that migrants' education has no significant impact on the likelihood of sending remittances …. Conditional on sending remittances, however, high-skilled migrants send significantly higher amounts of money to their households …