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 …

remittances sent to rural households on consumption-type and investment-type expenditures. We apply propensity score matching to …This paper investigates how private transfers from internal migration in China affect the expenditure behaviour of … families left behind in rural areas. Using data from the Rural-Urban Migration in China (RUMiC) survey, we assess the impact of …

It is often assumed that international labor migration from Tajikistan, while having no noticeable effects on … the migration decision is developed and tested empirically. In a second step, the effect of low-skilled labor migration on … household expenditure shares is analyzed using 2SLS. While only weak effects of migration measured by a simple dummy are visible …

Remittances from overseas can encourage human capital investment and improve educational outcomes in developing … of remittances on the human capital formation of school-age children. After correcting for selection bias and other … potential endogeneities with instrumental variables and fixed effects regressions, remittances are found to have negative …

Migration, remittances, welfare, expenditure patterns, agricultural production, diversification, fixed …-effect regression. length of migration, migration intensity, Vietnam. - Rücküberweisung, Wohlfahrt, Ausgabenstruktur …

survey data indicates a similar pattern for total expenditures. With reduced outward aggregate remittances from Australia … nor the expenditures on imported food items changed differently for any group in that period, while an analysis with HILDA …

With 250 million migrants globally, remittances are one of the major sources of income in many developing countries …. While there is abundant evidence that remittances facilitate consumption smoothing in receving countries, the literature has … impact of remittances on the stability of household consumption, using both cross-country and household-level datasets. Our …

" motives. -- Double-hurdle model ; migration ; remittances … remittances, income, consumption and savings. Moreover, since a large share of individuals do not remit money at all, an …