. Remittances improve household welfare by significantly reducing the chances of recipient households living under the poverty line …. However, the positive effect of remittances vanishes when the focus is on extreme poverty. This finding implies that migration …This paper examines the impacts of international remittances on child labor and household welfare by presenting …

Poverty is typically measured as insufficient yearly income or consumption. In practice, however, poverty is marked by … poverty measures to include a temporal dimension. Using panel data from rural India, we show how conventional poverty measures … can distort understandings of poverty: exposure to poverty is wider and more common than typically measured, and poverty …

fertility in Indonesia, and assesses whether the investment in human capital of children and fertility are used to smooth …