This paper studies the effects of remittances from the U.S. on child labor and school attendance in recipient Mexican …

estimation of these linkages is also shown to matter for gauging the sensitivity of remittances to economic conditions in the … home country, and hence the extent to which remittances might buffer domestic shocks as well as transmitting external ones. …

or personal transfers) by 1139 pairs of migrants and recipients of remittances in Moldova in 2006. Explanatory variables …

The literature has focused on motives to explain remittance behavior. But as nonanonymous transfers, remittances are …

What determines remittances – altruism or enlightened self-interest - and do remittances trigger additional migration … effects on receipt of remittances than net earnings potential of households in the country of origin. Second, the receipt of … remittances has a positive effect on emigration intentions of household members living in the country of origin. Therefore …

The paper studies the effects of international remittances on poverty and inequality in Ethiopia using an urban … household survey from 2004. In order to identify the effects of remittances on poverty and inequality, counterfactual …

We analyze the impact of remittances on the labor supply of men and women in post-conflict Tajikistan. Individuals from … results are robust to different measures of remittances and migration. When we differentiate between regions by their exposure … to the 1992-1998 armed conflict, we observe that the negative effect of remittances on the labor supply of women is …

large rise in remittances, and an increased flow of skilled migration. However, recent literature based on cross … than characteristics of their family situations explains much of the higher remittances. …

We investigate the relationship between remittances and migrants' education both theoretically and empirically, using … original bilateral remittance data. At a theoretical level we lay out a model of remittances interacting migrants' human … between remittances and migrants' education is ambiguous and depends on the immigration policy conducted at destination. The …