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. The results of triple difference-in-differences estimations reveal that remittances mediate the negative effects of export …
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The paper investigates the impact of remittances on the relative concerns of households in rural China. Using the Rural … relative concerns with respect to income and remittances. Our results show that although rural households experience … substantial utility loss due to income comparisons, they gain utility by comparing their remittances with those received by their …
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This paper analyses the impact of remittances on household expenditure behaviour in Senegal. We use propensity score … matching and OLS methods to assess the average impact of remittances on several household budget shares. Our results show a … productive use of international remittances in Senegal. However, the impact of remittances disappears when the marginal spending …
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To test whether transfers sent and received by regional migrants serve an insurance role, this paper estimates the causal impact of income shocks at a migrant's origin and destination location on the bilateral transfer of funds. Using rainfall shocks in rural Nicaragua, I find that migrants aged...
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This article analyses the distributional impact of remittances across two regions of Algerian emigration (Nedroma and … Idjeur) using an original survey we conducted of 1,200 households in 2011. Remittances and especially the role played by … large as Nedroma. At the same time, they help reduce poverty by nearly 13 percentage points. Remittances have a strong …
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. One important pathway is through remittances, which contribute to income directly but also help to reduce risk and …
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