A sizable literature has concluded that remittances impact the expenditure patterns of households. We explore how the …

explore to what extent households adjust their income and employment strategies and savings in response to exposure to floods … Pakistan exhibit at least no decrease in their savings behavior. We discuss policy implications in terms of developing nonfarm …

that migrants tend to return to their origin region, urban areas benefit more than rural areas from international savings …

remittances to be used more effectively, and concerns about externalities from skilled workers being lost. As a result there is …, developing new savings and remittance products that allow migrants more control over how their money is used, and some efforts to … number of other policies, such as lowering the cost of remittances, reducing passport costs, offering dual citizenship, and …

Migration and remittances are widely seen as major components of diversification strategies aimed at coping with risky … economic in kind. Accordingly, remittances account for a substantial share of household incomes. Results derived from a probit … remittances are obviously more easily accessible than other opportunities of income diversification beyond farming for households …

Recent theoretical work shows that precautionary savings increase in response to an increase in first-order risk. In … welfare effect of future income uncertainty. We build a model of remittances and savings under income uncertainty and show … that an immigrant will increase his remittances in response to a first-order risk decrease in future income. Using changes …

Strong ties with the home country and with the host country can coexist. An altruistic migrant who sends remittances to …

What determines remittances – altruism or enlightened self-interest - and do remittances trigger additional migration … effects on receipt of remittances than net earnings potential of households in the country of origin. Second, the receipt of … remittances has a positive effect on emigration intentions of household members living in the country of origin. Therefore …