This study analyzes the differential consumption patterns of foreign and domestic remittances to migrant households in … foreign and domestic recipients. Foreign remittances are considered as fungible and spent in the same way as other sources of … income. In contrast, domestic remittances are considered a less permanent source of income and are spent more on improving …

countries particularly susceptible to economic hardship. We examine the role of remittances in either alleviating or increasing … causality and endogeneity and find that while income smoothing does not appear to be the main motive for sending remittances in … a non-negligible share of households, remittances do indeed smooth household income on average. Other variables …

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 …

A sizable literature has concluded that remittances impact the expenditure patterns of households. We explore how the …

the hypothesis that both emigration and remittances reduce child labor. …

In this paper, I measure the importance of remittances and financial development for developing countries. I estimate … channel for remittances to affect economic growth. The index brings together information from existing measures, reflecting … the more financial development in a country, the smaller becomes the impact of remittances on economic growth and it can …

Empirical evidence that migrants send home more remittances after disasters raises the question of whether remittances … remittances, which supports the idea that remittances act as (self-) insurance. We also show that purchasing formal funeral cover … insurance. -- remittances ; insurance ; risk management strategies …