Do new migration opportunities for rural households change the nature and extent of informal risk sharing? We … experimentally document that randomly offering poor rural households subsidies to migrate leads to a 40% improvement in risk sharing … in their villages. We explain this finding using a model of endogenous migration and risk sharing. When migration is …

Do new migration opportunities for rural households change the nature and extent of informal risk sharing? We … experimentally document that randomly offering poor rural households subsidies to migrate leads to a 40% improvement in risk sharing … in their villages. Our model of endogenous migration and risk sharing shows that risky and temporary migration …

In this paper we present and confront the expected outcome of an increase in risk on the regional or sectoral … (Bhagwati-Hamada).Importance of convexity of local labor demands was invariably recognized. A localized increase in risk does … not always repel the labor force in the long-run. This statement would hold even if individuals were not risk-neutral, as …

Remittances in Moldova reach 36% of GDP, hence they constitute an essential part of the Moldovan economy. The most … visible characteristic of remittances is their unequal distribution. The analysis applying the standard Lorenz Curve proves … that 75% receiving households gets only 25% of total amount being sent to the country. The way remittances are distributed …

This article analyses the distributional impact of remittances across two regions of Algerian emigration (Nedroma and … Idjeur) using an original survey we conducted of 1,200 households in 2011. Remittances and especially the role played by … large as Nedroma. At the same time, they help reduce poverty by nearly 13 percentage points. Remittances have a strong …

Migrant remittances are significant but remain relatively costly to send. Policymakers have argued that fintech …

We exploit the size of the 2010 Ecuadorian Census to estimate the effect of remittances on secondary school enrollment … model that accounts for both endogeneity and non-linearity issues, we find both positive and negative effects of remittances … are for rural females. For children in wealthier households, the effects of remittances are either negative or non …