remittances sent home from Gulf countries. This paper looks into the Kerala Model which shows economic development without …

deprivation in infrastructure and the multi-dimensional index, while we find no significant results for remittances sent to the …

remittances as a development mechanism. This study attempts to understand to what degree labor patterns are affected by the … receipt of remittances. Using nationally representative household income and expenditure data for Mexico, I analyze the effect … range of -.006 to -.03. This finding attenuates to some degree the measure of the impact of remittances in the receiving …

This study investigates the effect of a surging increase in international remittances on poverty in developing … analysis. Our results suggested that international remittances have an uneven effect across poverty quantiles for developing … countries. We found that the poverty alleviating effect of remittances was more pronounced in the worst off group or those in …

We provide a direct test of the impact of altruism on remittances. From a sample of 105 male migrant workers from … remittances. Altruism does not seem to matter. However, we document a strong positive relationship between altruism and … remittances for those migrants that report a loan obligation back home, which is nearly half the sample. We explain the role of …

location decisions. We show that the impact of remittances on the risk faced by the migrant is more complex than usually … location of risk might be counter-intuitive, as remittances increase the migrant’s exposure to risk in the origin country. Also …, marginal returns to remittances may be increasing, at least locally, due to the endogeneity of the future location. Interior …

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 …