We investigate the relationship between remittances and migrants' education both theoretically and empirically, using … original bilateral remittance data. At a theoretical level we lay out a model of remittances interacting migrants' human … between remittances and migrants' education is ambiguous and depends on the immigration policy conducted at destination. The …

Research on the relationship between high-skilled migration and remittances has been limited by the lack of suitable …. Our results reveal that migrants' education has no significant impact on the likelihood of sending remittances …. Conditional on sending remittances, however, high-skilled migrants send significantly higher amounts of money to their households …

Research on the relationship between high-skilled migration and remittances has been limited by the lack of suitable …. Our results reveal that migrants' education has no significant impact on the likelihood of sending remittances …. Conditional on sending remittances, however, high-skilled migrants send significantly higher amounts of money to their households …

This article explores the effect of remittances on the prevalence and intensity of child labor in Bolivia. Using …, and the number of hours worked per week declines with the size of remittances received. The size of the impact varies … between urban and rural households. Remittances to urban households have a larger impact on moving children completely out of …

The economic wellbeing of a large number of rural Kosovar families depends heavily on migrants' remittances. This paper … Propensity Score Matching. We find that remittances have no impact on the extremely poor, but lift around 40% of migrant …

Workers’ remittances have become the second largest source of net financial flows to developing countries. However, the … main motives for sending remittances remain controversial. This paper examines the importance of altruistic versus … investment motive. Finally, migrants’ skills raise remittances, while a large informal economy in the sending country depresses …

sending countries are often undervalued. But migrants may foster trade, remittances, innovations, investments back home, and …

We exploit the size of the 2010 Ecuadorian Census to estimate the effect of remittances on secondary school enrollment … model that accounts for both endogeneity and non-linearity issues, we find both positive and negative effects of remittances … are for rural females. For children in wealthier households, the effects of remittances are either negative or non …

wage distribution in the destination country either from the size of remittances or directly from migrants. If their …

114 countries during 2009-2011, we find that both having family members abroad and receiving remittances are positively … remittances are particularly beneficial for evaluative well-being in less developed and more unequal contexts; in richer countries …, only the out-migration of family members is positively associated with life evaluations, while remittances have no …