other things, the significance of the level of migration, the education level of migrants, and financial sector development … in determining remittances. Given the potential endogeneity problems, the migration and financial development variables … migrants relative to the population in home countries, the size of the economy, and the level of economic development of …

effects on saving or entrepreneurship. Remittances appear to overwhelm household splitting as a causal mechanism …

self-selection of migrants being driven by high migration costs, and with negative self-selection of migrants being driven …

Remittances are a major source of external finance for many developing countries but the cost of sending remittances … products and new cost comparison information sources rely heavily on the financial literacy of migrants. This paper presents … the results of a randomized experiment designed to measure the impact of providing financial literacy training to migrants …

underreporting is more prevalent in households with higher earning migrants. The discrepancy in earning reports is strongly … 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 …

differentials with high-income countries, South-South migrants make substantial contributions to remittances … owners could experience lower incomes while wages rise. Globally, the welfare gains of new migrants could be expected to … exceed the losses of old migrants by a wide margin. The remaining natives in sending countries could enjoy a net increase in …

, and some efforts to provide financial education to migrants and their families. Suggestive evidence together with theory … remittances to be used more effectively, and concerns about externalities from skilled workers being lost. As a result there is … migration options, developing new savings and remittance products that allow migrants more control over how their money is used …

. Migration and remittances clearly have first-order effects on poverty at the origin, on the welfare of migrants and their …Although measured remittances by migrant workers have soared in recent years, macroeconomic studies have difficulty …. First, it offers evidence that a large majority of the recent rise in measured remittances may be illusory -- arising from …

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 …-Samuelson adjusted real exchange rates, and poor trade performance. In Armenia and Georgia, where remittances are a smaller share of …

remittances on income, poverty, inequality, and human capital (or, in general,welfare) as well as difficulties confronting … remittances implies a need to carefully spell out the rationale for interventions. It also notices the lack of good migration data …