positive effect on investment expenditures. Migration and remittances are therefore interpreted as short-term coping strategies …The object of this article is to assess the impact of remittances on household expenditure patterns in Tajikistan. More … results do not provide evidence of a productive use of remittances since neither internal nor external remittances have a …

We examine the effect of remittances on the migrant households consumption and saving patterns as well as their living … standard using the Indonesia Family Life Survey data. Using matching - and difference-in-differences matching estimators, we … find that remittances seem to change the household consumption patterns. However, we do not find strong evidence that …