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 …

We identify whether remittances facilitate consumption smoothing during health shocks in Jamaica. In addition, we … remittances offer complete insurance toward decreased consumption during health shocks and that moral hazard is weak. The role of … investigate whether remittances are subject to moral hazard by receivers, how the informal insurance provided by remittances …

This paper examines the effect of remittances on household expenditure patterns applying propensity score matching … Living Standards Survey 2010/2011. In general, remittance recipient households tend to spend more on consumption, health and … the productive or non-productive use of remittances, expenditures on non-food investment categories, such as durable goods …

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 …

remittances, income, consumption and savings. Moreover, since a large share of individuals do not remit money at all, an … broader context of migrants' labour, income and consumption allocation strategy. On the contrary, the migrant's income has …" motives. -- Double-hurdle model ; migration ; remittances …

invest or to consume those remittances. Previous studies have devoted extensive attention to migrants' altruism toward … recipients and little to recipients' altruism toward migrants. We find that the migrant sends larger remittances home when he … that other household members in the home country likely consume rather than invest remittances if they are highly …

remittances, income, consumption and savings. Moreover, since a large share of individuals do not remit money at all, an … broader context of migrants' labour, income and consumption allocation strategy. On the contrary, the migrant's income has …

, remittances can be a tool to afford health services as well. Those changes in consumption habits appear to be temporary. Overall …Tajikistan between 2007 and 2011 was the most dependent country on remittances in the world. Using survey data covering … this period, I analyze the impact of remittances on household expenditures. I control for endogeneity and find that …

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 …

across different income brackets. Findings show that foreign remittances lead to significant consumption changes. Contrary to …This study analyzes differential consumption patterns of Pakistani migrant households resulting from foreign and … domestic remittances. Using the Working-Leser model and a number of matching techniques, we analyze a large representative …