the Philippine peso leads to increases in household remittances received from overseas. The estimated elasticity of … migrant earnings affect origin-household investments? This paper examines Philippine households%u2019 responses to overseas … Philippine-peso remittances with respect to the Philippine/foreign exchange rate is 0.60. These positive income shocks lead to …

supermarket entry on household welfare. The richness of the microdata allows us to estimate a general expression for the gains … large and significant welfare gains for the average household that are mainly driven by a reduction in the cost of living …

is based on a comprehensive household-level transactions database matched with price information from store-level scanner … data, with a large and geographically diverse impact on household incomes over time. We estimate income and wealth effects … using “within” variation of income and wealth at the household level. Our estimates can be interpreted as income and wealth …

differences, international trade, remittances, and a heterogeneous workforce. We compare welfare under the observed levels of … flows - such as Jamaica or El Salvador - are also better off due to migration, but for a different reason: remittances. The …% in countries with large incoming remittances. Our results are robust to accounting for imperfect transferability of …

UI recipient household during this period had a level of economic well-being that was on average between 3 and 8 percent …

This paper uses national household survey data to examine changes in real per capita incomes in South Africa between …