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 …

This paper examines the effect of remittances on household expenditure patterns applying propensity score matching … the productive or non-productive use of remittances, expenditures on non-food investment categories, such as durable goods …

This study analyzes the differential consumption patterns of foreign and domestic remittances to migrant households in … foreign and domestic recipients. Foreign remittances are considered as fungible and spent in the same way as other sources of … income. In contrast, domestic remittances are considered a less permanent source of income and are spent more on improving …

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 …

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 …

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 …

remittances sent to rural households on consumption-type and investment-type expenditures. We apply propensity score matching to … account for the selection of households into receiving remittances, and estimate average treatment effects on the treated. We … find that remittances supplement income in rural China and lead to increased consumption rather than increased investment …