We use data from a newly designed household survey in Senegal to study intrahousehold allocation of remittances income … corresponds to the internal budgetary arrangements found in the extended families of Senegal. We find that remittances accruing to … enrolment of children aged 7 to 13 is found to depend on remittances income accruing to the sub-group he/she belongs to and not …

We use data from a newly designed household survey in Senegal to study intrahousehold allocation of remittances income … corresponds to the internal budgetary arrangements found in the extended families of Senegal. We find that remittances accruing to … enrolment of children aged 7 to 13 is found to depend on remittances income accruing to the sub-group he/she belongs to and not …

We analyze the impact of remittances on the labor supply of men and women in post-conflict Tajikistan. Individuals from … results are robust to different measures of remittances and migration. When we differentiate between regions by their exposure … to the 1992-1998 armed conflict, we observe that the negative effect of remittances on the labor supply of women is …

This paper investigates the relationship between international migration, remittances and human capital investment in … remittances a household receives and the amount of expenditures allocated to education (for all levels of education). We consider …

Remittances are a major source of external finance for many developing countries but the cost of sending remittances … remittance products but does not change either the frequency or level of remittances. …

Donations by migrants to community projects in their home countries (“collective remittances”) help to provide local … public goods and may promote economic development. We draw on the literatures on migrant remittances and on philanthropy in … general to identify possible motives for collective remittances. We test the empirical relevance of these motives using micro …

reception of remittances facilitates taking up loans from formal or informal sources among Mexican households and finds positive … and statistically significant effects of remittances on borrowing and on the existence of debts. We address methodological … distance to train lines and labor market conditions in the US as exogenous determinants of remittances. …

The study proposes to evaluate the impact of the current financial crisis on remittances received by three South Asian … countries, namely Pakistan, Bangladesh and Sri Lanka. The objective is twofold: to forecast the impact of change in remittances … remittances will be used in a Keynesian framework to assess the impact of remittances on the growth of these countries while at …

This paper investigates the relationship between international migration, remittances and human capital investment in … remittances a household receives and the amount of expenditures allocated to education (for all levels of education). We consider …

income shocks and whether they use migration, remittances, informal loans, or assets as ex post risk-coping mechanisms. Since … 16 percent of consumption is insured. While domestic remittances from other families replace about 51 percent of income …