remittances. In contrast, school attendance of teenage girls (ages 12-17) falls when siblings migrate, while parental migration … and remittances have no effect. Having a grandmother as the head of household after parents (typically fathers) migrate …

Remittances from overseas can encourage human capital investment and improve educational outcomes in developing … of remittances on the human capital formation of school-age children. After correcting for selection bias and other … potential endogeneities with instrumental variables and fixed effects regressions, remittances are found to have negative …

Hardly any studies have investigated the impact of migrant remittances on economic growth (EG) and inequality in the … Western Balkans as a whole (WB6). Using the method of instrumental variables (VI), the findings show that while remittances … labor market and encouraging uncontrolled individual relocation. This paper also reveals that although remittances have …

114 countries during 2009-2011, we find that both having family members abroad and receiving remittances are positively … remittances are particularly beneficial for evaluative well-being in less developed and more unequal contexts; in richer countries …, only the out-migration of family members is positively associated with life evaluations, while remittances have no …

This paper investigates the impact of remittances on poverty and inequality in Nigeria. In contrast to the existing … impact of remittances for households at different levels of the conditional expenditure distribution. Furthermore, in tracing … this heterogeneous impact, we are able to address the effect of remittances on poverty and inequality simultaneously in a …

According to the World Bank, in 2017, an estimated 450 billion US dollars in remittances were sent to Low and Middle … Income Countries. This means that the sum of remittances is more than three times larger than the sum of the world's total … official aid to the same countries. The practice of sending remittances can be seen as one specific thing that migrants do as …

yet firmly established the effect of remittances on household welfare. We investigate the case of Tajikistan, one of the … instrumental variable estimation to confirm a positive relationship between receiving remittances and household welfare after … correcting for endogeneity. Moreover, we find that the effect of remittances on household spending is more pronounced in …

explored the influence of the complementarity between human capital development and personal remittances on poverty in CEECs …, and very much conflicting. The lag of poverty, remittances, the interaction between human capital development and … remittances, trade openness, unemployment, and partly financial development significantly increased infant mortality rates in …

search information from Google Trends, we take a novel approach to explaining the inflow of remittances to a developing …

The literature has mainly focused on analyzing the relationship of remittances with economic growth and social welfare …, neglecting more complex aspects where remittances can have relevant implications. To contribute to the literature, the objective … of this research is to examine the dynamic relationship between remittances, capital formation, structural transformation …