migration has a stronger effect on household expenditures than permanent migration. -- expenditures ; remittances ; migration …This paper examines the effect of temporary and permanent migration on household expenditures and on asset …/durables ownership. Using household survey data from Moldova, this paper relies on the matching approach for identification. It is shown …

This paper examines the effect of international migration on the welfare of family members left behind at the origin …. Previous literature has produced inconclusive evidence, with some studies suggesting that migration reduces income poverty … provides a new unified framework that generates testable predictions of whether migration increases non-migrants' welfare in …

The study examines the long-run relationship between remittances and household consumption in Lesotho for the period … 1991-2019 using the Johansen cointegration technique and the Engle-Granger Residual Approach. Despite remittances in … between remittances and household consumption has not been conclusively established in prior literature. The results of this …

Do remittances and social assistance transfers have different impacts on household’s expenditure patterns? While two … separate strands of literature have looked at how social assistance or remittances have been spent, few studies have compared … that social assistance and remittances have different impacts on expenditure patterns (having controlled for potential …