ambiguous net effects on decisions about work, investment, and education. These net effects, and their mechanisms, are poorly … with standard observational estimators. It finds large effects on spending, borrowing, and human capital investment, but no … effects on saving or entrepreneurship. Remittances appear to overwhelm household splitting as a causal mechanism …

behind through remittances. However, splitting up families in this way may also have multiple adverse effects on education …

We investigate the relationship between remittances and migrants' education both theoretically and empirically, using … original bilateral remittance data. At a theoretical level we lay out a model of remittances interacting migrants' human … between remittances and migrants' education is ambiguous and depends on the immigration policy conducted at destination. The …