This article offers econometric evidence that income remittances sent home by family migrants stimulate household-farm incomes indirectly by relieving credit and risk constraints on household-farm production. (DSE/DÜI)

This article employs a Social Accounting Matrix (SAM) to analyse the economic structure of a rural economy using 1982 household data from a major migrant-sending village in Central Mexico. The results highlight the central role of both internal and international migration on the village economy,...