Workers' remittances have become a major source of income for developing countries. However, little is still known … about their impact on poverty and inequality. Using a large cross-country panel dataset, the authors find that remittances … are robust to the use of different instruments that attempt to correct for the potential endogeneity of remittances …

Workers' remittances have become a major source of income for developing countries. However, little is still known … about their impact on poverty and inequality. Using a large cross-country panel dataset, the authors find that remittances … are robust to the use of different instruments that attempt to correct for the potential endogeneity of remittances …

Workers' remittances have become a major source of income for developing countries. However, little is still known … about their impact on poverty and inequality. Using a large cross-country panel dataset, the authors find that remittances … are robust to the use of different instruments that attempt to correct for the potential endogeneity of remittances …

. Surprisingly, we found that the differences in income by education level declined in most cases. Remittances had a modest effect …