This paper analyses the impact of remittances on household expenditure behaviour in Senegal. We use propensity score … matching and OLS methods to assess the average impact of remittances on several household budget shares. Our results show a … productive use of international remittances in Senegal. However, the impact of remittances disappears when the marginal spending …

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 …

This paper examines the effect of remittances on household expenditure patterns applying propensity score matching … the productive or non-productive use of remittances, expenditures on non-food investment categories, such as durable goods …

This study analyzes the differential consumption patterns of foreign and domestic remittances to migrant households in … foreign and domestic recipients. Foreign remittances are considered as fungible and spent in the same way as other sources of … income. In contrast, domestic remittances are considered a less permanent source of income and are spent more on improving …

This paper analyses the impact of remittances on household expenditure behaviour in Senegal. We use propensity score … matching and OLS methods to assess the average impact of remittances on several household budget shares. Our results show a … productive use of international remittances in Senegal. However, the impact of remittances disappears when the marginal spending …

domestic remittances. Using the Working-Leser model and a number of matching techniques, we analyze a large representative … across different income brackets. Findings show that foreign remittances lead to significant consumption changes. Contrary to … the widely-held view, remittances do not raise the budget share on consumer goods and recreation, while the allocation on …