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 …

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 …

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 hypothesis that both emigration and remittances reduce child labor. …

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

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 …

Using a recent Spanish database, we show that remittances respond to cross country differences in portfolio values … over time with the length of the migration spell, suggesting that remittances sent for portfolio motives become more likely …

In this paper we examine how remittances relate to the exchange rate, natural disasters and foreign aid in developing … find that while foreign aid tends to appreciate the real exchange rate, remittances do not have the same impact. We also … of disaster shocks on the real exchange rate and on the level of remittances across the two samples. …