This paper analyses the impact of remittances on household expenditure behaviour in Senegal. We use propensity score … productive use of international remittances in Senegal. However, the impact of remittances disappears when the marginal spending … matching and OLS methods to assess the average impact of remittances on several household budget shares. Our results show a …

yet firmly established the effect of remittances on household welfare. We investigate the case of Tajikistan, one of the … instrumental variable estimation to confirm a positive relationship between receiving remittances and household welfare after … correcting for endogeneity. Moreover, we find that the effect of remittances on household spending is more pronounced in …

domestic remittances. Using the Working-Leser model and a number of matching techniques, we analyze a large representative … across different income brackets. Findings show that foreign remittances lead to significant consumption changes. Contrary to … the widely-held view, remittances do not raise the budget share on consumer goods and recreation, while the allocation on …

to foreign capital inflow through remittances; remittances represented around 13% of gross domestic product (GDP) in 2009 … and its remittances sending migrants, e.g. the UNDP's 2010 Kosovo Remittance Study, this discussion paper puts a specific … well as the remittances receiving household in Kosovo. In our analysis of migrant households, we present results on socio …

The growth in the number and in the size of remittances and the stability of these monetary transfers have made them a …

income shocks and whether they use migration, remittances, informal loans, or assets as ex post risk-coping mechanisms. Since … 16 percent of consumption is insured. While domestic remittances from other families replace about 51 percent of income …

use remittances, informal loans, or assets as ex post risk-coping mechanisms. Since these households have limited access … approximately 27 percent of consumption is insured. International remittances from migrant members replace about 11 percent of …

receipt of remittances affect educational outcomes in Haiti. Based on a theoretical approach it tries to disentangle the … effects of both phenomena that have mostly been jointly modeled in previous literature. The results suggest that remittances …

receipt of remittances affect educational outcomes in Haiti. Based on a theoretical approach it tries to disentangle the … effects of both phenomena that have mostly been jointly modeled in previous literature. The results suggest that remittances … high poverty rate in the country. -- Haiti ; education ; remittances ; migration …

This paper provides a fact sheet of domestic and international remittances at the State level and across household … characteristics and discusses the extent of remittance dependency, it's growth since the 1990's, the different uses of remittances …-08, 60% being Inter-State transfers and 80% directed towards rural households (b) Domestic remittances financed over 30% of …