The impact of remittances on households left behind by migration is ambiguous a priori due to competing income and … substitution effects. We offer new evidence on the effect of remittances on household investment decisions. We enrich our analysis … concerns. We find that remittances increase the likelihood of human, physical, and social capital investment in most of our …

the analysis of the effects of paternal migration and remittances on the children left behind. First, it can give rise to …

improves left-behinds' welfare through two different channels: (i) migrants' remittances exceed their forgone income …

Research on the relationship between high-skilled migration and remittances has been limited by the lack of suitable …. Our results reveal that migrants' education has no significant impact on the likelihood of sending remittances …. Conditional on sending remittances, however, high-skilled migrants send significantly higher amounts of money to their households …

nonreceiving households, and households with migrant parents to single out the impact of migration and remittances. The results … other household members. Receiving remittances reduces the adverse impact of migration by only 1-3 percentage points. The …

country into stagnation. We also find that immigrants' remittances are harmful to the host country under full employment but …

remittances. The sample comprises 112 countries with which Spain has closely interconnected migratory, commercial and investment …-2016. The results show that a greater number of immigrants in Spain boost foreign direct investment (FDI), remittances sent and … emigration from Spain with the FDI and remittances sent is confirmed. With the economic downturn, the FDI declines and the number …