-based systems, and their impact on the choice of migrants to send remittances. Secondly we discuss whether alternative remittances … countries. We find that in comparison to traditional remittances sending channels, mobile money transfer channels are often …, availability and access to the remittances by receiving households or security of transactions. More importantly, mobile cash …

-based systems, and their impact on the choice of migrants to send remittances. Secondly we discuss whether alternative remittances … countries. We find that in comparison to traditional remittances sending channels, mobile money transfer channels are often …, availability and access to the remittances by receiving households or security of transactions. More importantly,mobile cash …

economic position. We also find that remittances from females emphasize investment in home improvements and acquisition of farm … land and nonfarm assets, whereas remittances of men are channeled more toward housing assets and business ventures. …

We investigate the relationship between remittances and migrants' education both theoretically and empirically, using … original bilateral remittance data. At a theoretical level we lay out a model of remittances interacting migrants' human … between remittances and migrants' education is ambiguous and depends on the immigration policy conducted at destination. The …

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 …

countries. We analyze a novel bank-level data set from Nepal, where a steady inflow of remittances has contributed to foreign …