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 …

This paper reexamines the literature on the impact of migration on household members left behind at origin. The … empirical problem previous studies address is the self-selection of households into migration, i.e. the endogenous decision as …, 1994; Rubin, 1974). I show that the point-identification of the causal impact of migration requires strong behavioral …

families who do not return those investments in order to prevent their own possibilities of receiving future remittances and … investments from being adversely affected. We find that in equilibrium we can have remittances to be invested and given back to … the migrant and remittances for private consumption by the migrant's family even in the complete absence of altruism on …