Are International Remittances Altruism or Insurance? Evidence from Guyana Using Multiple-Migrant Households

By Reena Agarwal, A. Horowitz. 2002

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Subfields: Gender Studies, Safety Research, Sociology and Political Science

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In Gender Studies

1. J. Hagen‐Zanker
2. Christian Dustmann
3. Frédéric Docquier
4. M. Siegel
5. Hillel Rapoport

In Safety Research

1. Giulia Bettin
2. A. Presbitero
3. Nicola Spatafora
4. J. Hagen‐Zanker
5. Carlos Vargas‐Silva
6. Christian Dustmann
7. Frédéric Docquier
8. Ioana Schiopu

In Sociology and Political Science

1. Frédéric Docquier
2. Hillel Rapoport
3. Christian Dustmann
4. Carlos Vargas‐Silva
5. Peng Huang
6. Giulia Bettin
7. J. Mestres
8. M. Siegel

Citations in the corpus

• 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).”
• Remittances and Vulnerability in Developing Countries (2014, background): “3 At the microeconomic level, some studies find that remittances increase to compensate relatives for negative shocks to their income—the altruism motive (Agarwal and Horowitz, 2002).”
• Remittances and temporary migration (2010, background): “Lucas and Stark (1985, 1988), Hoddinott (1994), Funkhouser (1995), Poirine (1997), Agarwal and Horowitz (2002), de la Briere et al (2002), Faini (2006), Osili (2007), Amuedo-Dorantes and Pozo (2006) and Hanson (2007).”
• The Economics of Migrants' Remittances (2005, background): “By contrast, Agarwal and Horowitz (2002) found a negative effect of the number of migrants on remittances sent to Guyana; building on their argument on multiple-migrant households, they took this finding as supportive evidence of altruism instead of insurance. The study by de la Brière et al. (2002)”
• The Determinants of Remittances: A Review of the Literature (2007, background): “HH shock HHH age Agarwal & Horowitz (2002) Guyana, [Altruism model] + x x x x + -”
• Macroeconomic determinantsof workers' remittances: Hostversus home country's economic conditions (2006, background): “Agarwal & Horowitz (2002) , Brown (1994, 1997), de la Brie` re et al. (2002), Hoddinott (1994) and Merkle & Zimmerman (1992).”