important role for non-migrating family members. From a political economy perspective, remittances are characteristic of such … remittances in cash and in kind from emigrant Romanian adult children to elderly parents back home. Both forms of upward support … remittances of family commitments over time and of needs and opportunities. The sample includes 2109 parent-child dyads with data …

Migration, remittances, welfare, expenditure patterns, agricultural production, diversification, fixed …

Workers'' remittances are often argued to have a tendency to move countercyclically with the GDP in recipient countries …'' remittances flows into 12 developing countries over their respective business cycles during 1976-2003 and finds that …

which remittances affect economic activity. The empirical evidence does not clearly support the purported short …

resource wealth. In addition to traditional variables, we include an institutional variable and remittances among the … regressors. We find that (i) both institutions and remittances have a positive and significant impact on market capitalization …

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 …

This paper investigates the impact of workers’ remittances on equilibrium real exchange rates (ERER) in recipient … remittances; the share of consumption in tradables; and the sensitivity of a country’s risk premium to remittance flows. Panel …