This paper examines the economic impact of international remittances on countries and households in the developing … world. To analyze the country-level impact of remittances, the paper estimates an econometric model based on a new data set … United States, OECD-Europe) are more likely to receive international remittances, and that while the level of poverty in a …

This paper explores the impact of remittances on poverty, education, and health in 11 Latin American countries using … following: (1) regardless of the counterfactual used remittances appear to lower poverty levels in most recipient countries; (2 … heterogeneity in the poverty reduction impact of remittances' flows. Among the aspects that have been identified in the paper that …

This paper studies the question of whether exchange rate policy affects the impact of remittances on economic growth in … regime classification, whereas the data for remittances and all other variables are from the World Bank's World Development … economic growth following an increase in remittances, but also that the impact of remittances on growth is positive under a …

remittances as well as an increase in labor income, although income from capital might decline. Second, in a hypothetical scenario … differentials with high-income countries, South-South migrants make substantial contributions to remittances …

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 …