temporary, partial-household migration to high-wage jobs in Korea. This allows unusually reliable measurement of the reduced … effects on saving or entrepreneurship. Remittances appear to overwhelm household splitting as a causal mechanism …

This paper analyzes the impact of international remittances on poverty and household consumption and investment using … variables approach to control for selection and endogeneity, it finds that international remittances have a large statistical … effect on reducing poverty in Indonesia. Second, households receiving remittances in 2007 spent more at the margin on one key …

Macro- and micro-economic evidence suggests a positive role of remittances in preparing households against natural … disasters and in coping with the loss afterwards. Analysis of cross-country macroeconomic data shows that remittances increase … after the 1998 flood. Ethiopian households that receive international remittances seem to rely more on cash reserves and …

Remittances are a major source of external finance for many developing countries but the cost of sending remittances … remains high for many migration corridors. International efforts to lower costs by facilitating the entry of new financial … remittance products. But it does not change either the frequency or level of remittances …

correlated with variation in remittances: greater underreporting by wives is associated with lower remittances. An exchange model … of remittances is developed with asymmetric information and costly state verification. The optimal remittance contract … prescribes a threshold for remittances that invites verification only if unmet. The model?s predictions closely match our …

This study estimates determinants of remittances to the Philippines. Remittance growth responds to real growth in the … employment policies. While most studies conclude that remittances are exclusively either driven by altruistic or self …-interested motives, the evidence in this study supports remittances driven by both. The dual nature of remittances means that remittances …

remittances by workers deployed overseas. The main benefit of the phenomenon is an easing of the fiscal burden arising from the …

the world continents. The migrants’ remittances have contributed greatly to GNP and foreign exchange earnings averaging 6 …

matching as well as village and household networks as instruments for remittances receipts, average estimates suggest that …The objective of this paper is to present microeconomic evidence on the economic effects of international remittances … on households' spending decisions. Remittances can increase the household budget and reduce liquidity constraint problems …