The object of this article is to assess the impact of remittances on household expenditure patterns in Tajikistan. More … specifically, the paper applies propensity score matching methods to the 2003 Tajikistan Living Standards Measurement Survey. The … results do not provide evidence of a productive use of remittances since neither internal nor external remittances have a …

remittances sent home from Gulf countries. This paper looks into the Kerala Model which shows economic development without …

deprivation in infrastructure and the multi-dimensional index, while we find no significant results for remittances sent to the …

remittances as a development mechanism. This study attempts to understand to what degree labor patterns are affected by the … receipt of remittances. Using nationally representative household income and expenditure data for Mexico, I analyze the effect … range of -.006 to -.03. This finding attenuates to some degree the measure of the impact of remittances in the receiving …

In the present work, the topic of remittances was analyzed froma microeconomic point of view. After the important role … determinants that explaintheir investment degree at a national level; this mean, those factors thatinfluence in the remittances … fieldwork, we found evidence that the majorityof the remittances goes to current consume expenditures (75%) andonly a 21% is …

This study investigates the effect of a surging increase in international remittances on poverty in developing … analysis. Our results suggested that international remittances have an uneven effect across poverty quantiles for developing … countries. We found that the poverty alleviating effect of remittances was more pronounced in the worst off group or those in …

We provide a direct test of the impact of altruism on remittances. From a sample of 105 male migrant workers from … remittances. Altruism does not seem to matter. However, we document a strong positive relationship between altruism and … remittances for those migrants that report a loan obligation back home, which is nearly half the sample. We explain the role of …

location decisions. We show that the impact of remittances on the risk faced by the migrant is more complex than usually … location of risk might be counter-intuitive, as remittances increase the migrant’s exposure to risk in the origin country. Also …, marginal returns to remittances may be increasing, at least locally, due to the endogeneity of the future location. Interior …

Do remittances sent by overseas migrants serve as insurance for recipient households? This paper examines how … remittances sent by overseas migrants respond to income shocks experienced by Philippine households. Because household income and … remittances are jointly determined, we exploit rainfall shocks as instrumental variables for income changes. In households with …