Do Migrants Insure Those who Stay Behind? Evidence from the Kayes Area (Western Mali)

By F. Gubert. 2002

349 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: Safety Research, Sociology and Political Science, Soil Science

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In Safety Research

1. R. H. Adams
2. Yanos Zylberberg
3. A. Gröger
4. J. Carling
5. Dean Yang
6. Hwajung Choi
7. Smita Wagh
8. Catherine A. Pattillo

In Sociology and Political Science

1. R. H. Adams
2. Frédéric Docquier
3. J. Carling
4. Hillel Rapoport
5. Yanos Zylberberg
6. A. Gröger
7. M. Siegel
8. Gordon H. Hanson

In Soil Science

1. R. H. Adams
2. Yanos Zylberberg
3. A. Gröger
4. Hwajung Choi
5. Dean Yang
6. J. Hagen‐Zanker
7. Smita Wagh
8. Catherine A. Pattillo

Citations in the corpus

• Evaluating the Economic Impact of International Remittances On Developing Countries Using Household Surveys: A Literature Review (2011, background): “Most household surveys suggest that only about half of all international migrants remit (Gubert, 2002; de la Briere et al., 2002); moreover, these studies also find that a large number of households receive remittances without having any migrant household member abroad (Adams, 2006; Amuedo-Dorantes…”
• Are Remittances Insurance? Evidence from Rainfall Shocks in the Philippines (2007, methodology): “For studies with micro-data, see Brown (1997) and Gubert (2002).”
• Determinants of Workers' Remittances: Evidence from the European Neighbouring Region (2006, background): “In this framework, remittances act like an insurance against income shocks that might hit the recipients in the home country (Agarwal and Horowitz 2002, Gubert 2002).”
• The Determinants of Migrant Remittances (2008, background): “Migrants intending to return are generally more likely to remit, and remit larger amounts (Merkle and Zimmermann, 1992; Brown, 1997; Gubert, 2002; Cai, 2003).”
• Internal Labor Migration as a Shock Coping Strategy: Evidence from a Typhoon (2016, background): “For an overview, see McKenzie and Yang (2010). A related literature also investigates similar effects for changes in migrant destination conditions (Yang 2006, 2008b, McKenzie et al.”
• Impact of Remittances on Poverty and Financial Development in Sub-Saharan Africa (2007, methodology): “Azam and Gubert (2005) found that in the Kayes region of western Mali widespread migration lowered recipient productivity.”