in the Pacific island countries in maximizing the benefits of migration and remittances on their economic development. We … remittances by switching to the lowest-cost providers. We also find that exposure to new information thanks to migration … use a newly collected household survey about temporary migration in the region and implement a data audit on remittance …

search information from Google Trends, we take a novel approach to explaining the inflow of remittances to a developing …

nonreceiving households, and households with migrant parents to single out the impact of migration and remittances. The results … other household members. Receiving remittances reduces the adverse impact of migration by only 1-3 percentage points. The …This paper explores the impact of international migration on school enrollment of children staying behind in Tajikistan …

How remittances contribute to the economies of remittance-receiving developing countries is a global issue. Considering … Nepal as a highly remittance-receiving country, this paper primarily examines the impact of remittances on economic growth … the effects of remittances on economic growth. The bound test approach of cointegration and the error correction model …

to identify major determinants of remittances using gravity models of bilateral remittances. We find that bilateral …. The degree to which remittances are countercyclical is found to vary significantly by subregion: Central Asia and … estimated models suggest that migrant stock is a top determinant of remittances, and that an increase in bilateral remittances …

, and economic development and whether inward remittances may help to construct an inclusive financial system. Using both … endogeneity-robust generalized method of moments and a structural equation model, our results show that remittances and financial … remittances and improve financial inclusion status are of great importance and could pull middle-income countries out of middle …

enhance the productive utilization of remittances and strengthen institutional quality. However, it is important to note that …

of indicators, we explored nonfiscal channels of consumption risk sharing. We found that the migration of rural labor to …

patterns of world trade, accompanied by a remarkable level of internal migration within the country. Hundreds of millions of … shocks may receive smaller migration inflows. At the worker level, a larger proportion of the gains accrues to workers …

migration on children's educational outcomes. Consistent with the findings of a large empirical literature, we find that … parental migration has a significantly negative impact on left-behind children’s educational outcomes as measured by test … endogeneity issue concerning the migration decision that may have contaminated previous studies. We find evidence that return …