benefits as well as costs. Among the former, one of the most important is lower costs for migrants' remittances. Some of the …

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 …

peso leads to increases in household remittances received from overseas. The estimated elasticity of Philippine …-peso remittances with respect to the Philippine/foreign exchange rate is 0.60. These positive income shocks lead to enhanced human …

in Mexico due to migration. The principal hypothesis of this study is that remittances, knowledge and experience … remittances and socioeconomic conditions of the communities. In a third section the effect over time is estimated, relating per … significant relation between per capita income growth and the percentage of households that receive remittances across communities …

We examine the effect of remittances from abroad on households' schooling decisions using data for El Salvador …. Following the massive war-related emigration of the 1980's, remittances became a significant source of household income … income from a source that is uncorrelated with parental schooling remittances , we find that remittances have a large …