We study the relationship between remittances and development from an empirical point of view. We also identify the … CONAPO. The data base contains Human Development Index, migratory intensity and remittances for the 2443 Mexican … municipalities. The evidence suggests that remittances have a positive effect on development. However, the relationship is not linear …

open up their immigration policies so as to enable migrants' remittances to substitute for foreign aid as a growth … transnational migration and remittances are entirely mediated by the human capital profile of emigrants, as determined by … provokes a "brain drain", growth is negatively impacted in the sending country despite remittances. The reverse is true when …

In this article we re-examine the relationship between remittances and economic growth placing special attention to the … remittances and economic growth or have used a quadratic term to capture non-linearity. We show that the relationship between … remittances and growth is neither linear nor quadratic and propose the use of a semiparametric model to avoid the risk of …

This paper presents a dynamic econometric model to study the impact of remittances on consumption, investment, output … and imports. Multiplier effects of exogenous shocks of remittances are estimated in the short and long term, with data …-country priorities of remittances spending and an asymmetric impact on economic growth of remittances changes. …

. The role of Fed policy for remittances has not yet been studied. We estimate a series of panel local projections for …

We identify whether remittances facilitate consumption smoothing during health shocks in Jamaica. In addition, we … investigate whether remittances are subject to moral hazard by receivers, how the informal insurance provided by remittances … remittances offer complete insurance toward decreased consumption during health shocks and that moral hazard is weak. The role of …

This paper analyses the impact of remittances on household expenditure behaviour in Senegal. We use propensity score … matching and OLS methods to assess the average impact of remittances on several household budget shares. Our results show a … productive use of international remittances in Senegal. However, the impact of remittances disappears when the marginal spending …

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 …