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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005822455
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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008868123
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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009317954
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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010757343
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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010268794
behind. We also find that the monetary inflows (remittances) that accompany migration do not increase happiness levels among … sustains on account of the emigration of loved ones, with remittances from abroad. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010301430
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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010278534
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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010284020
behind. We also find that the monetary inflows (remittances) that accompany migration do not increase happiness levels among … sustains on account of the emigration of loved ones, with remittances from abroad. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008565050
behind. We also find that the monetary inflows (remittances) that accompany migration do not increase happiness levels among … sustains on account of the emigration of loved ones, with remittances from abroad. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005649888