international migration and household investments addressing the problem of brain drain and the use of remittances. Es... …

A sizable literature has concluded that remittances impact the expenditure patterns of households. We explore how the …

countries particularly susceptible to economic hardship. We examine the role of remittances in either alleviating or increasing … causality and endogeneity and find that while income smoothing does not appear to be the main motive for sending remittances in … a non-negligible share of households, remittances do indeed smooth household income on average. Other variables …