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 …

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 …

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 …

Through substitution and income effects, remittances can alter an individual's allocation of time between market … activities and household production, decreasing labor supply. This paper uses propensity score matching and household surveys for … 2006 and 2014 to estimate the impact of remittances on labor supply in the three countries of the Northern Triangle (El …

International migration offers individuals and their families the potential to experience immediate and large gains in … are also concerns about potential costs of migration, including concerns about trafficking and human rights, a desire for … remittances to be used more effectively, and concerns about externalities from skilled workers being lost. As a result there is …

, Nigeria, Senegal, and Uganda -- to investigate the link between international remittances and households' financial inclusion … in Sub-Saharan Africa. The paper finds that receiving international remittances increases the probability that the … remittances, using as instruments indicators of the migrants' economic conditions in the destination countries …