This paper examines the impacts of international remittances on child labor and household welfare by presenting … evidence from Turkey. Remittances by alleviating resource constraints may improve household welfare and help reduce labor …. Remittances improve household welfare by significantly reducing the chances of recipient households living under the poverty line …

well as the remittances receiving household in Kosovo. In our analysis of migrant households, we present results on socio … 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 …

Household composition is traditionally regarded as exogenous in economic analyses. The migration literature typically … assumes that the migration of a household member is not associated with further variations in co-residence choices. We rely on … migration episode and additional changes in household composition. Migrant households have a 34.5 percent higher probability of …

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

This paper analyses the role of remittances and migration on the occupational outcomes of the household members left … "dependency" effect of remittances. Our results show that remittances received by households in Tajikistan have an important …

When a husband migrates, his wife may control more household resources and therefore change how the household spends …

living arrangements of the household members left behind. The migration of a married Mexican man typically induces his spouse … and children to join the household of the wife's parents, a pattern that is at odds with the prevailing patrilocal norm … the analysis of the effects of paternal migration and remittances on the children left behind. First, it can give rise to …

The growth in the number and in the size of remittances and the stability of these monetary transfers have made them a … wonder about their effects on household decisionmaking, particularly in relation to the number of children to have. While … this is household specific, when considered at the community and country level, there are significant policy implications …

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 …