Remittances have risen spectacularly in recent decades, capturing the attention of researchers and policymakers and … spurring debate on their pros and cons. Remittances can improve the well-being of family members left behind and boost the …

the effect of transaction costs on foreign remittances. The authors find that the effect of transaction costs on … home or make them remit through informal channels. They also find that remittances are facilitated by the existence of …

mostly by reducing the probability of receiving domestic remittances. As a result, the non-labor income of beneficiaries …

suitable to control for unobserved heterogeneity as well as simultaneous bias existing between remittances and migrant's stock …. The main novelty with respect to the existing literature is the use of transaction costs of remittances as a superior … remittances, such as improved economic conditions in the receiving country, Pakistani migrant's stock in the source country, and …

. Previous literature has produced inconclusive evidence, with some studies suggesting that migration reduces income poverty … improves left-behinds' welfare through two different channels: (i) migrants' remittances exceed their forgone income …

In this paper, we focus on the use of remittances to school children remaining in migrant communities in Haiti. After … addressing the endogeneity of remittance receipt, we find that remittances raise school attendance for all children in some … remittances by the household lifts budget constraints and raises the children's likelihood of being schooled, the disruptive …

countries particularly susceptible to economic hardship. We examine the role of remittances in either alleviating or increasing … causality and endogeneity and find that while income smoothing does not appear to be the main motive for sending remittances in … a non-negligible share of households, remittances do indeed smooth household income on average. Other variables …

countries particularly susceptible to economic hardship. We examine the role of remittances in either alleviating or increasing … causality and endogeneity and find that while income smoothing does not appear to be the main motive for sending remittances in … a non-negligible share of households, remittances do indeed smooth household income on average. Other variables …

authors examine the effect of transaction costs on foreign remittances. They find that the effect of transaction costs on …