Impact of remittances on household income, asset and human capital: evidence from Sri Lanka
By Prabal K. Dea, Dilip Rathab. 2012
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This paper explores the developmental impacts of international remittance income on the recipient households. The empirical analysis proceeds in two parts. In the first part, we show that remittance income largely accrues to the families belonging to the bottom quintiles of the income distribution helping the recipient families move up the income ladder. In the second part, we show that remittance income has positive and significant effect on children health and education, but not on conspicuous consumption or asset accumulation. We argue that remittance income is targeted better and not as fungible as other sources of transfer income, as the senders closely monitor it. We use bias-corrected matching estimators to control for self-selection issues.
Subfields: Gender Studies, Safety Research, Sociology and Political Science
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- Does the inflow of remittances and energy consumption increase CO2 emissions in the era of globalization? A global perspective (2020, background): “De and Ratha (2012) have investigated the relationship between remittances and household income in Sri Lanka and found that remittances boost up the level of household income and consumption.”
- Does the inflow of remittances cause environmental degradation? Empirical evidence from China (2019, background): “CO2 in the emerging economies. by Prabal and Dilip (2012) on the relationship between remittances and household income.”