for urban households and are more important for microfinance institutions, than for traditional banks. -- Remittances … ; Mexico ; Financial Access ; Microfinance …In policy discussions, it has frequently been claimed that migrants' remittances could function as a "catalyst" for …

to health shocks. This finding is consistent with the view that remittances respond to households' demand for financing …The assumption that remittances are a substitute for credit has been an implicit or explicit theoretical foundation of … many empirical studies on remittances. This paper directly tests this assumption by comparing the response to health …