potential motives behind workers' remittances. It shows that the level of workers' remittances depends on how great are their …. The model is applied to Morocco using co-integration techniques. The paper then discusses the stability of remittances in …

house price developments can largely be explained by the dynamics of fundamentals, such as GDP, remittances, and external …

There has been little systematic empirical study on the relationship between remittances and growth. This paper … attempts to examine this relationship. Using a newly constructed crosscountry of data series for remittances covering a large … sample of developing countries, we relate the interaction between remittances and financial development and its impact on …

Workers' remittances have been playing an increasingly important role in the balance of payments of many countries and …' remittances to agricultural GDP, which is used as an indicator of economic "hardship" in the home country, evidence suggests that … altruism could have played an important role in the flow of remittances to Egypt, Jordan, Morocco, Pakistan, and Tunisia in …

which remittances affect economic activity. The empirical evidence does not clearly support the purported short …

Empirical studies that use self-reported data on remittances to measure the latter's impact on microeconomic incentives …-reporting of remittances. After controlling for this, we find a strong negative impact of remittances on incentives to work. …

remittances as well as investment and hours worked by the relative(s). We use data from Armenia to test our predictions regarding … implications of remittances flows on behavior of receiving households. Consistent with our predictions, remittance … benefits of remittances might be overstated and emphasizes the importance of measuring their impact in a general- rather than a …

decline when the island's currency weakens, undermining their usefulness as shock absorber. On the other hand, remittances …. The procyclicality of remittances calls into question the notion that remittances are largely motivated by altruism. …

We analyze the performance of kernel density methods applied to grouped data to estimate poverty (as applied in Sala …-i-Martin, 2006, QJE). Using Monte Carlo simulations and household surveys, we find that the technique gives rise to biases in poverty … estimates, the sign and magnitude of which vary with the bandwidth, the kernel, the number of datapoints, and across poverty …