Enhancing the Impact of Remittances on Development: New Evidence from Experiments among Migrants from El Salvador

Gabriela Inchauste and Ernesto Stein
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Ernesto Stein: Inter-American Development Bank

Chapter 3 in Financing the Family, 2013, pp 47-70 from Palgrave Macmillan

Abstract: Abstract Remittances bring substantial benefits to recipient households in the form of higher consumption levels and lower poverty rates. They are used to increase investments in human capital and small enterprises, and their countercyclical response to shocks in migrant home countries helps households achieve smoother levels of consumption over time. Much of the evidence for these statements is correlational rather than causal, but a growing body of research that exploits natural experiments (in which remittances vary exogenously because of some external shock) has found that remittances do have a positive causal impact on many indicators of household well-being.

Keywords: Saving Account; Partner Institution; Joint Account; Migrant Control; Remittance Flow (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2013
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DOI: 10.1057/9781137333070_3

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