temporary, partial-household migration to high-wage jobs in Korea. This allows unusually reliable measurement of the reduced … effects on saving or entrepreneurship. Remittances appear to overwhelm household splitting as a causal mechanism …

This paper analyzes the impact of international remittances on poverty and household consumption and investment using … variables approach to control for selection and endogeneity, it finds that international remittances have a large statistical … effect on reducing poverty in Indonesia. Second, households receiving remittances in 2007 spent more at the margin on one key …

Macro- and micro-economic evidence suggests a positive role of remittances in preparing households against natural … disasters and in coping with the loss afterwards. Analysis of cross-country macroeconomic data shows that remittances increase … after the 1998 flood. Ethiopian households that receive international remittances seem to rely more on cash reserves and …

Remittances are a major source of external finance for many developing countries but the cost of sending remittances … remains high for many migration corridors. International efforts to lower costs by facilitating the entry of new financial … remittance products. But it does not change either the frequency or level of remittances …

By putting together a relatively large data set on bilateral remittances of emigrants, this paper is able to shed light … on the important hypothesis of smoothing. The smoothing hypothesis is that remittances are countercyclical with respect … affirmation of smoothing is important for two reasons. First, it suggests that remittances should be placed on the list of …

-country savings does not affect remittances sent home by migrants …

correlated with variation in remittances: greater underreporting by wives is associated with lower remittances. An exchange model … of remittances is developed with asymmetric information and costly state verification. The optimal remittance contract … prescribes a threshold for remittances that invites verification only if unmet. The model?s predictions closely match our …

Armenia, Georgia, the Kyrgyz Republic, and Tajikistan have all experienced substantial out-migration of workers and an … associated inflow of workers' remittances over the past two decades. These four countries have much higher human capital, as … workers' remittances has had effects analogous to those of Dutch disease in the Kyrgyz Republic and Tajikistan, which have …

population education; better-educated migrants; and increased migration in high-skilled jobs. Four-fifths of long-run income … origin areas. Increased income from international labor migration not only benefits migrants themselves, but also fosters …

matching as well as village and household networks as instruments for remittances receipts, average estimates suggest that …The objective of this paper is to present microeconomic evidence on the economic effects of international remittances … on households' spending decisions. Remittances can increase the household budget and reduce liquidity constraint problems …