growth and welfare; by working out the consequences of the migration of parents for the wellbeing of their children; by …

This paper assumes that migrants derive utility from their own consumption, their own leisure, and remittances to their … family. It hypothesizes that the labor supply and remittances of Mexican migrants in the U.S. are jointly determined. Shits … in real exchange rates affect the cost of sending a given real volume of remittances back to the family in the sending …

We model how the remittances by a migrant are influenced by the remittance behavior of fellow migrants with whom the … migrant compares himself. We show that an increase in the mean remittances of the group of fellow migrants encourages the … migrant to increase his own remittances, and that this response holds only for those who lag behind the group mean. We test …