This paper analyses the impact of remittances on household expenditure behaviour in Senegal. We use propensity score … matching and OLS methods to assess the average impact of remittances on several household budget shares. Our results show a … productive use of international remittances in Senegal. However, the impact of remittances disappears when the marginal spending …

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 …

to foreign capital inflow through remittances; remittances represented around 13% of gross domestic product (GDP) in 2009 …. This means that the well-being of many Kosovar families financially depends on their migrated family members (UNDP 2010 … and its remittances sending migrants, e.g. the UNDP's 2010 Kosovo Remittance Study, this discussion paper puts a specific …

A sizable literature has concluded that remittances impact the expenditure patterns of households. We explore how the …, while accounting for the level of transfers from family abroad. We find that both the level and the uncertainty of …

While a sizable literature has concluded that remittances impact the expenditure patterns of households, we have a …. Using data from Mexico, we find that both the size and the uncertainty of remittances raise asset accumulation among …

Using a recent Spanish database, we show that remittances respond to cross country differences in portfolio values … over time with the length of the migration spell, suggesting that remittances sent for portfolio motives become more likely … as the immediate needs of family left back home are addressed and immigrants settle down in their host communities …

Using a recent Spanish database, we show that remittances respond to cross country differences in portfolio values … over time with the length of the migration spell, suggesting that remittances sent for portfolio motives become more likely … as the immediate needs of family left back home are addressed and immigrants settle down in their host communities …

household's likelihood of receiving remittances. We also compute average treatment effects as well as the marginal impact of … receiving remittances on household welfare, across welfare quantiles. The novelty of our approach is to control for omitted … welfare level of a household per se does not trigger the receipt of remittances. The receipt of remittances favors non …

This paper examines the impacts of international remittances on child labor and household welfare by presenting … evidence from Turkey. Remittances by alleviating resource constraints may improve household welfare and help reduce labor … work and unpaid family work for girls and boys of ages 15-to-19 in remittance receiving households, respectively …