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 …

to directly pay remittances to schools in the Philippines. We find this take-up is largely driven by a response to the …This paper tests how migrants’ willingness to remit changes when given the ability to direct remittances to educational … commitment of simply labeling remittances as being for education, to the hard commitment of having funds directly paid to a …

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 …

This paper uses national household survey data to examine changes in real per capita incomes in South Africa between … are not dramatic and inequality has increased. We conduct a series of semi-parametric decompositions in order to …

production. The distribution of the share of household income earned by the wife exhibits a sharp cliff at 0.5, which suggests …

This paper analyzes the impact of high school household income and scholastic ability on post-secondary enrollment in … household income on university enrollment, though there continues to be an effect at the top of the income distribution. We also …

individual-pre-tax and household-post-tax earnings and across administrative (Social Security Administration) and survey (Panel … Study of Income Dynamics) data. We estimate two alternative processes for household after-tax earnings and study their … earnings dynamics implies a substantially better fit of the evolution of cross-sectional consumption inequality over the life …