indicators has emerged as remittances to developing countries have risen substantially over the past decade. If remittances … capital investment, remittances may serve as a vehicle for growth. In this paper, we use the 2010 Nepal Living Standards … Survey III (NLSS III) to examine how remittances affect household expenditures on human capital investment. Overall, our …

This study estimates the impact of migrants’ remittances on households’ spending decisions in Ecuador. Applying both … parametric and semiparametric techniques, we find strong evidence that remittances enhance expenditures on education, health, and …

This article explores the effect of remittances on the prevalence and intensity of child labor in Bolivia. Using …, and the number of hours worked per week declines with the size of remittances received. The size of the impact varies … between urban and rural households. Remittances to urban households have a larger impact on moving children completely out of …

intermarriage and three outcomes related to migrants' home country preference - intentions to return, remittances sent and actual …

the contemporaneous choice of savings and remittances. Moreover, when comparing the saving profiles of both natives and …

We use Moroccan data to study the determinants of international migrants' remittances, testing the altruistic and … welfare hypotheses. In particular, we analyze and assess what motivates migrants to send remittances back home. Our results … lend support to the altruistic hypothesis suggesting that remittances are sent to households with low levels of welfare …

) Are immigrants really more entrepreneurial than natives? (ii) Are migrant remittances likely to fund entrepreneurship in …

remittances as one of the least volatile sources of income in the developing world. …

sending remittances to their household of origin. The presence of other siblings is found to decrease the probability of … remitting but has no effect on the amount sent. The volume of remittances sent by other siblings is also found to have no … unambiguous, support for sibling remittances being driven by altruistic as well as independent motives. …

Recent empirical evidence links migrant remittances, savings and return migration, and stresses the inaccuracy of … return migration plans. This paper presents a model of endogenous remittances, savings and return decisions under uncertainty …