extent to which out-of-pocket health spending impoverish the households in Albania. The study augments the existing evidence … out-of-pocket health spending. The data used in this study come from Albania Living Standard Measurement Survey (ALSMS …

This paper investigates the impact of remittances on health outcomes in Tajikistan and finds a positive effect. While … existing literature shows that remittances increase health care expenditure, expenditure alone is an incomplete proxy for … significant share of the population. Our study explores the impact of remittances on proxies of health outcomes beyond expenditure …

elsewhere. Our study investigates the effect of remittances on the likelihood a household vaccinate its children against polio … isolate the effect of receiving remittances using distance and exact matching. We find that access to remittances increases ….5 percentage points. Unfortunately, remittances do not significantly improve vaccinations of girls. The results imply that …

This paper tests for the assumption that remittances are a substitute for credit by comparing the response to health …. This finding is consistent with the view that remittances respond to households’ demand for financing emergencies and make …

Using household survey data for Albania, the paper investigates the effect of remittances on health capital … variable and propensity score matching are used to give answer to the research question about the impact of remittances in the …

Using household survey data for Albania, this study compare decision-making about human capital investment in … effects of remittances. The crucial assumption in the proportional hazard model is that the effect of the covariates is … characteristics, parental schooling, household income and the presence of remittances. In the model, household incomes are considered …