We provide a direct test of the impact of altruism on remittances. From a sample of 105 male migrant workers from … remittances. Altruism does not seem to matter. However, we document a strong positive relationship between altruism and … use it as a proxy for altruism. When the entire sample is considered, we find that only migrants' income robustly explains …

This research provides a qualitative and empirical investigation of the microeconomic causes and impacts of remittances …, migrant's age, household income, and household head's job are the most important predictors of the level of remittances. The … first three variables induce the value of received remittances, while the final variable, household head's job, acts to the …