migration has a stronger effect on household expenditures than permanent migration. -- expenditures ; remittances ; migration …This paper examines the effect of temporary and permanent migration on household expenditures and on asset …/durables ownership. Using household survey data from Moldova, this paper relies on the matching approach for identification. It is shown …

important as mechanisms of risk sharing and income redistribution. We argue that migration and remittances have the potential to …, designed by the authors, to empirically study the effect of migration and remittances on both monetary and non … modify the prevalent transfer behaviour in migrant-sending communities. A priori, it is indeterminate whether migration and …