. Assuming that the origin household maximizes a collective utility including earnings but also further remittances when choosing … show that expected remittances, along with earnings differentials, play a major role in shaping intra-household selection …

unpredictability and migrants' remittances on fiscal consolidation in these countries. Two definitions of fiscal adjustment are …-income countries, remittances increase the likelihood of fiscal consolidation, be the latter gradual or rapid. Surprisingly, we observe …

By reducing financial constraints and income variability, remittances can increase educational attainment and thereby … remittances on child labor and educational outcomes in Niger. More specifically, we investigate how recipient households in Niger … identification of two separate events that are often driven by similar factors. In order to delineate the effect of remittances from …

identified along two additional lines : remittances and migration history. Results show that individual occupational choice in …

transmission channels through which remittances affect households and sectors. I give a particular attention to the investment of … remittances in the real estate sector, by allowing a segmentation of the savings market. To begin with, I assess the negative … impact of immigration restrictive policies and permanent migration on the future evolution of remittances. Then I ask what …

This paper analyzes the respective impact of aid, remittances and medical brain drain on child mortality using panel … and cross-country quintile-level data on respectively 84 and 46 developing countries. Our results show that remittances … poorest countries. By contrast, medical brain drain is found to have a harmful impact on child mortality. Last, remittances …

This paper focuses on the relationships between remittances, elections, and government consumption as a percentage of … world. The period under investigation is 1990-2010. The main objective of the paper is to assess whether remittances have an …-to-GDP-ratio. It appears that remittances dampen the political business cycle (PBC). Furthermore, the PBC is reduced up to the point …

Migrants' remittances should b e considered as one of the determinants of migration ows, since they have an economic … remittances. We therefore use an epidemic mo del to formalize such mechanisms, and include these feedback e ects in the migrants …

empirical evidence on the relationship between remittances and poverty needs not to be informative about the size of the direct …