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The impact of workers' remittances on household consumption in India : testing for consumption augmentation and stability

Ramcharran, Harri - In: Journal of Asian finance, economics and business : JAFEB 4 (2017) 4, pp. 51-60

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Remittances and household expenditure behaviour : evidence from Senegal

Randazzo, Teresa; Piracha, Matloob - In: Economic modelling 79 (2019), pp. 141-153

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International remittances and household expenditure patterns in Bangladesh

Dey, Sima Rani; Ahmed, Faroque - In: The Indian economic journal 72 (2024) 4, pp. 689-710

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Migrant remittances and consumption expenditure under rain-fed agricultural income : micro-level evidence from Ghana

Akobeng, Eric - In: Oxford development studies 50 (2022) 4, pp. 352-371

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The impact of migration on the welfare of migrant sending households in selected rural areas of Zimbabwe

Mlatsheni, Cecil; Zvendiya, Ronald - 2023

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Categorising households based on shock severity experience : the effects of remittances on consumption smoothing post-shock in Nigeria

Otame, Lucky - In: Journal of international development : the journal of … 35 (2023) 8, pp. 2535-2551

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Analyzing the impact of workers' remittances on household consumption in Latin American and Caribbean countries

Ramcharran, Harri - In: Journal of economics and finance : JEF 44 (2020) 1, pp. 59-77

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Remittances and the Impact on Crime in Mexico

Brito, Steve; Corbacho, Ana; Osorio, René - 2014

This working paper studies the effect of remittances from the United States on crime rates in Mexico. The topic is … examined using municipal-level data on the percent of household receiving remittances and homicides per 100,000 inhabitants …. Remittances are found to be associated with a decrease in homicide rates. Every 1 percent increase in the number of households …

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Regional Migration, Insurance and Economic Shocks: Evidence from Nicaragua

Molina Millán, Teresa - 2015

To test whether transfers sent and received by regional migrants serve an insurance role, this paper estimates the causal impact of income shocks at a migrant's origin and destination location on the bilateral transfer of funds. Using rainfall shocks in rural Nicaragua, I find that migrants aged...

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On altruism and remittances

Antoniades, Alexis; Seshan, Ganesh; Weber, Roberto; … - 2013

We provide a direct test of the impact of altruism on remittances. From a sample of 105 male migrant workers from … remittances. Altruism does not seem to matter. However, we document a strong positive relationship between altruism and … remittances for those migrants that report a loan obligation back home, which is nearly half the sample. We explain the role of …

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