-country savings does not affect remittances sent home by migrants …We implemented a randomized field experiment that tested ways to stimulate savings by international migrants in their … treatment groups. Migrants offered the greatest degree of control accumulated the most savings at the partner bank, compared to …

welfare effect of future income uncertainty. We build a model of remittances and savings under income uncertainty and show …Recent theoretical work shows that precautionary savings increase in response to an increase in first-order risk. In … that an immigrant will increase his remittances in response to a first-order risk decrease in future income. Using changes …

is the correct specification for the analysis of migrants' savings and remittances rather than the conventional Tobit …This paper investigates the determinants of migrants' financial transfers to their home country using German data. A …. Moreover, while the effect of the household size on migrants' transfers abroad turns out to be significantly negative …