This paper empirically investigates the effects of remittances on access to financial services in 26 Sub …-Saharan African countries over the period 2004-2015. We find that remittances have a significantly positive impact on financial access … in Sub-Saharan Africa. This finding remains true in least squares regressions and with Arellano-Bond Dynamic Panel …

receiver of remittances worldwide. Using the Mexican Family Life Survey panel (MxFLS) for 2002 and 2005, the results from the …In policy discussions, it has frequently been claimed that migrants' remittances could function as a 'catalyst' for …

receiver of remittances worldwide. Using the Mexican Family Life Survey panel (MxFLS) for 2002 and 2005, the results from the …In policy discussions, it has frequently been claimed that migrants' remittances could function as a catalyst for … fixed effects logit model show that receiving remittances is strongly correlated with the ownership of savings accounts and …

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

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

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 …