This paper uses a production function to examine the channels through which remittances affect output per worker in 31 … Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) countries from 1980-2010. We find that remittances directly increase output per worker if … remittances have increased human capital among the low-income nations, among the upper-middle-income nations, they have mostly …

This paper investigates the relationship between international migration, remittances and human capital investment in … Kenya. We use household level data from the 2009 Kenya Migration Household Survey (produced by the Africa Migration Project … remittances a household receives and the amount of expenditures allocated to education (for all levels of education). We consider …

The impact of remittances on households left behind by migration is ambiguous a priori due to competing income and … substitution effects. We offer new evidence on the effect of remittances on household investment decisions. We enrich our analysis … concerns. We find that remittances increase the likelihood of human, physical, and social capital investment in most of our …

Remittances from overseas can encourage human capital investment and improve educational outcomes in developing … of remittances on the human capital formation of school-age children. After correcting for selection bias and other … potential endogeneities with instrumental variables and fixed effects regressions, remittances are found to have negative …

explored the influence of the complementarity between human capital development and personal remittances on poverty in CEECs …, and very much conflicting. The lag of poverty, remittances, the interaction between human capital development and … remittances, trade openness, unemployment, and partly financial development significantly increased infant mortality rates in …

This paper analyzes the effects of skilled migration and remittances on fertility decisions at origin. We develop an …

This paper investigates the relationship between international migration, remittances and human capital investment in … Kenya. We use household level data from the 2009 Kenya Migration Household Survey (produced by the Africa Migration Project … remittances a household receives and the amount of expenditures allocated to education (for all levels of education). We consider …

investments for the household. On the other hand, migration of the parent which is the source of remittances may have a disrupting …This paper examines the impacts of international remittances on child human capital investments of households by … presenting evidence from Turkey. Remittances by alleviating resource constraints may allow higher consumption and productive …

The remittances have become an important source of finance in developing countries. The main objective of this thesis … is to explain the reasons for making remittances. The second issue is to measure their impact on the household's well … households. They also can have fuelled a rise in income inequality compared to the counterfactual situation of no migration. Our …