Do remittances support consumption during crisis? Evidence from Kosovo

Laetitia Duval () and Francois Charles Wolff ()
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Laetitia Duval: Imperial College London
Francois Charles Wolff: LEMNA - Laboratoire d'économie et de management de Nantes Atlantique - IEMN-IAE Nantes - Institut d'Économie et de Management de Nantes - Institut d'Administration des Entreprises - Nantes - UN - Université de Nantes, INED - Institut national d'études démographiques

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Abstract: This paper focuses on the effect of remittances on per capita consumption over time in a context of conflict , war-to-peace transition and crisis. We use two household surveys from Kosovo with unique timing , one collected immediately after the civil war in 2000 and the other during the economic crisis in 2010. This territory , in which the tension among ethnic groups is the focus of international concern , is one of the top remittance-­‐receiving countries in the world. We examine the effect of remittances not only at the average level of consumption , but also at various parts of the distribution of consumption using quantile regressions. We find that remittances alleviate poverty by enhancing the consumption level of the most vulnerable households , and the positive effect of remittances on consumption has remained constant between 2000 and 2010. This result may be connected with the resilience of remittances.

Keywords: Remittances; consumption; poverty; economic crisis; Kosovo (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2016-10
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Published in Oxford Development Studies, 2016, 44 (4), pp.479-492(14). ⟨10.1080/13600818.2016.1156080⟩

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DOI: 10.1080/13600818.2016.1156080

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