Since the start of the transition, the Russian Federation has experienced a number of regulatory and administrative reforms with respect to the provision child benefits. Besides changes in financing from local to federal budget, the introduction of means testing of previously universal child...

Since the 1980s, the theoretical and empirical literature on the motivations to remit has grown steadily. We review the microeconomic literature and show that the theoretical motivations to remit are overlapping while competing. We argue that in most cases this differentiation is unnecessary and...

This paper empirically analyses to what extent the level of immigrant integration determines the channel chosen to send remittances (migrant money transfers). In recent years, there has been a large push by the international community to formalize remittances. For this reason, it is important to...