It is often assumed that international labor migration from Tajikistan, while having no noticeable effects on … on household consumption patterns, albeit being rather small, actually speak in favour of investment of remittances, with …

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 …

remittances, income, consumption and savings. Moreover, since a large share of individuals do not remit money at all, an …" 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 …

This study estimates the impact of migrants’ remittances on households’ spending decisions in Ecuador. Applying both … parametric and semiparametric techniques, we find strong evidence that remittances enhance expenditures on education, health, and …

The macroeconomic studies that assess the contribution of international remittances to the origin countries of migrants … use a different definition of remittances than the microeconomic literature that examines the impact at the household and …-output analysis. Using the 2018 Family Income and Expenditure Surveys (FIES) of the Philippines, we find that remittance …

Remittances make a significant part of households' income in Kyrgyz Republic and play a big role in the economy. This … work analyses the impact of international migrants' remittances on the expenditure structure of households in the Kyrgyz …

It is often assumed that international labor migration from Tajikistan, while having no noticeable effects on … on household consumption patterns, albeit being rather small, actually speak in favour of investment of remittances, with …

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 …