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 …

remittances to CAPDR and Mexico during the pre-pandemic period. However, they fail to predict the sustained growth in remittances … since June 2020, including the significant increase in the average amount remitted. Using data from over 300 remittances … modes of transmission of remittances, additional U.S. fiscal stimulus and U.S. labor market developments, especially in the …

During a global shock two forces act upon international remittances in opposite directions: income losses among … migrants may reduce their ability to send remittances and, at the same time, migrants' concern for their family's wellbeing may … prompt them to send more remittances back home. Which of these drivers prevail is an empirical matter. We assemble quarterly …

This study examines the determinants of worker's remittances. Variance decompositions, impulse response functions and … Granger causality tests derived from a vector error correction model are used to test if remittances are affected by the … Dominican Republic, El Salvador, Mexico and the U.S. are used. The results indicate that remittances respond more to changes in …

Research on the relationship between high-skilled migration and remittances has been limited by the lack of suitable …. Our results reveal that migrants' education has no significant impact on the likelihood of sending remittances …. Conditional on sending remittances, however, high-skilled migrants send significantly higher amounts of money to their households …

This paper uses a production function to examine the channels through which remittances affect output per worker in 31 … Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) countries from 1980-2010. We find that remittances directly increase output per worker if … remittances have increased human capital among the low-income nations, among the upper-middle-income nations, they have mostly …

The impact of remittances on households left behind by migration is ambiguous a priori due to competing income and … substitution effects. We offer new evidence on the effect of remittances on household investment decisions. We enrich our analysis … concerns. We find that remittances increase the likelihood of human, physical, and social capital investment in most of our …

Research on the relationship between high-skilled migration and remittances has been limited by the lack of suitable …. Our results reveal that migrants' education has no significant impact on the likelihood of sending remittances …. Conditional on sending remittances, however, high-skilled migrants send significantly higher amounts of money to their households …

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 …

This paper investigates the impact of remittances on poverty and inequality in Nigeria. In contrast to the existing … impact of remittances for households at different levels of the conditional expenditure distribution. Furthermore, in tracing … this heterogeneous impact, we are able to address the effect of remittances on poverty and inequality simultaneously in a …