Donations by migrants to community projects in their home countries (“collective remittances”) help to provide local … public goods and may promote economic development. We draw on the literatures on migrant remittances and on philanthropy in … general to identify possible motives for collective remittances. We test the empirical relevance of these motives using micro …

reception of remittances facilitates taking up loans from formal or informal sources among Mexican households and finds positive … and statistically significant effects of remittances on borrowing and on the existence of debts. We address methodological … distance to train lines and labor market conditions in the US as exogenous determinants of remittances. …

The study proposes to evaluate the impact of the current financial crisis on remittances received by three South Asian … countries, namely Pakistan, Bangladesh and Sri Lanka. The objective is twofold: to forecast the impact of change in remittances … remittances will be used in a Keynesian framework to assess the impact of remittances on the growth of these countries while at …

This paper investigates the relationship between international migration, remittances and human capital investment in … remittances a household receives and the amount of expenditures allocated to education (for all levels of education). We consider …

income shocks and whether they use migration, remittances, informal loans, or assets as ex post risk-coping mechanisms. Since … these households have limited access to formal insurance and credit markets, any shocks to their volatile income can have … evidence of effective risk-sharing within the networks of family and friends. 2SLS, OLS, and SUR estimates show that only about …

use remittances, informal loans, or assets as ex post risk-coping mechanisms. Since these households have limited access … to formal insurance and credit markets, any shocks to their volatile income can have substantial impacts. Using panel … approximately 27 percent of consumption is insured. International remittances from migrant members replace about 11 percent of …

This paper analyzes the impact of remittances on the labor supply of men and women in post-conflict Tajikistan. We find … supply fewer hours when they do. The negative effect of remittances on labor supply is smaller for women, which is an … intriguing result as other studies on remittances and labor supply (primarily focused on Latin America) have shown that female …

Our findings include that overseas remittances come from throughout the world, but are dominated by the United States … as a main source. Also, over time, the destinations of foreign remittances are becoming more diverse as they move away … percentage of households receiving overseas remittances as held steady at around 5 to 7 percent of the population. Also, widows …

This paper tests for the assumption that remittances are a substitute for credit by comparing the response to health …. This finding is consistent with the view that remittances respond to households’ demand for financing emergencies and make …