This paper tests how migrants' willingness to remit changes when given the ability to direct remittances to educational … commitment of simply labeling remittances as being for education, to the hard commitment of having funds directly paid to a … education raises remittances by more than 15 percent. Adding the ability to directly send this funding to the school adds only a …

This paper tests how migrants’ willingness to remit changes when given the ability to direct remittances to educational … commitment of simply labeling remittances as being for education, to the hard commitment of having funds directly paid to a … raises remittances by more than 15 percent. Adding the ability to directly send this funding to the school adds only a …

The role of remittances in development and economic growth is not well understood. This is partly because the … literatures on the causes and effects of remittances remain separate. We develop a framework that links the motivation for … remittances with their effect on economic activity. Because remittances take place under asymmetric information and economic …