to established ethnic networks, and acquired more years of pre-migration schooling. Using a doubly robust treatment … effect estimator and the IV method, the study finds that the endogenous post-migration education in the host country …

reduction in the transaction costs of remittances. We follow the introduction of mobile money for the first time in rural … villages of Mozambique using a randomized field experiment. We find that mobile money increased migration out of these villages …, where we observe lower agricultural activity and investment. At the same time, remittances received and welfare of rural …

After independence, the GCC countries relied heavily on foreign workers from fellow Arab countries. Thus, remittances … remittances. This paper examines the consequences of the shift in the source of labor by econometrically testing the existence of … structural breaks in the flow of remittances in the MENA region. The change in the direction of remittance flows deprived several …

We develop a model of the interdependencies between migration, remittances and inequality, and investigate how … migration and subsequent remittances affect inter-household inequality in the origin communities. An important feature of our … on remittances and inequality, but offers a different interpretation, with no need to endogenize migration costs through …

This chapter reviews the recent theoretical and empirical economic literature on migrants' remittances. It is divided … between a microeconomic section on the determinants of remittances and a macroeconomic section on their growth effects. At the … timing of remittances. The results from selected empirical studies show that a mixture of individualistic and familial …

somewhat controversial. The most recent literature has focused on the link between skilled out-migration and educational … home thanks to a relatively larger flow of remittances. Skilled migrants typically earn relatively more and, ceteris … flow of remittances from skilled migrants. Hence, the sign of the impact of the brain drain on total remittances is an …

migrants. Working, residing in a developed country and belonging to the nuclear family positively affect remittances. The labor … status and the level of education of the head of the household both affect remittances. The decision to participate in the …

remittances via trans-national networks affect human capital investments through relaxing resource constraints and facilitate … remittances on school enrolment and child work in Ecuador. Identification relies on instrumental variables, exploiting information … on source countries of remittances and regional variation in the availability of bank offices that function as formal …

of being schooled. As such, remittances ameliorate the negative disruptive effect of household out-migration on children …In this paper, we focus on the use of remittances to school children remaining in migrant communities in Haiti. After … addressing the endogeneity of remittance receipt, we find that remittances raise school attendance for all children in some …