Household Living Standard Survey (VHLSS) of 2012. We find that remittances have a positive impact on household savings and …We examine the effects of receiving remittances on household saving behaviour and expenditure patterns in Vietnam. We … tend to use remittances productively, with receiving households increasing their investments in human and physical capital …

-- Ecologies of immateriality : remittances and the cashless / AllureIvan Small -- 'Cards are for showing off' : aesthetics of …, remittances, demonetization, and digitalization process replace coins and currencies around the world. Who's Cashing In? explores …

A sizable literature has concluded that remittances impact the expenditure patterns of households. We explore how the …

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 …

We examine the effect of remittances on the migrant households consumption and saving patterns as well as their living … find that remittances seem to change the household consumption patterns. However, we do not find strong evidence that … indicates remittances improve these households' living standard. Moreover, it seems that remittance households do not enjoy …

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

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 …