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 …

Remittances from overseas can encourage human capital investment and improve educational outcomes in developing … of remittances on the human capital formation of school-age children. After correcting for selection bias and other … potential endogeneities with instrumental variables and fixed effects regressions, remittances are found to have negative …

focusing on the migration rate, remittances, population growth and secondary school enrolment. This has not received adequate … attention in the literature, as many papers have primarily focused on the impact of remittances on economic growth. Design …/methodology/approach Leveraging on the macro-level approach to migration, remittances and the economy, this research considers the nexus among the …

The study investigated the relationship among remittances, financial development and economic growth in a panel of 20 …/ARDL estimations with panel unit root and cointegration tests. After establishing cointegration, remittances and financial development … financial development acted as a substitute in the remittances-growth relationship. Finally, unidirectional causal relationships …

migrants’ remittances on financial inclusion in selected SSA countries. Pooled Mean Group (PMG) form of panel ARDL was employed … robustness checks. For the purpose of this empirical investigation, we collected data on Remittances, Account Ownership and … Income Per Capita for 27 SSA countries based on data availability. The conclusion is that remittances have no significant …

Two of the most salient trends in migration and development over the last two decades are the large rise in remittances … and in the flow of skilled migrants. However, recent literature based on cross-country regressions has claimed that more … educated migrants remit less, leading to concerns that further increases in skilled migration will impede remittance growth …

migrants, rather than characteristics of their family situations, explains much of the higher remittances. … large rise in remittances, and an increased flow of skilled migration. However, recent literature based on cross …-country regressions has claimed that more educated migrants remit less, leading to concerns that further increases in skilled migration …

climate as a factor that motivates migrant’s remittance inflow to be channelled to investment received a clear empirical …

search information from Google Trends, we take a novel approach to explaining the inflow of remittances to a developing …