The roles of destination, gender, and household composition in explaining remittances: an analysis for the Dominican Sierra

By B. Brière, E. Sadoulet, A. de Janvry, S. Lambert. 2002

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Subfields: Gender Studies, Sociology and Political Science

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Remittances as insurance: evidence from Mexican immigrants (2006, result): “Do remittance payments rise when the home family experiences a negative income shock? That is, do we observe insurance payouts in response to economic crises at home? Two examples of this approach are the studies by Lucas and Stark (1985) and De la Briere et al. (2002) who find migrants remit more”
The Economics of Migrants' Remittances (2005, positive): “Hoddinott (1994), Subramanian (1994), and de la Brière et al. (2002) applied a similar approach to the case of developing countries.”
Remittance Receipt and Business Ownership in the Dominican Republic (2006, positive): “This result is consistent with the positions of Lucas and Stark (1985) and de la Brière et al. (2002), who argue that family assets appear to prompt greater remittance inflows in anticipation of future bequests.”
Transnational migration and the economy of funerals: Changing practices in Ghana (2006, background): “Thus far, studies seeking to explain migrants’ continued interest in their original communities have emphasized the role of inheritance (de la Brière et al., 2002; Lucas and Stark, 1985; Platteau and Baland, 2001).”
Worker Remittances and Capital Flows to Developing Countries (2004, methodology): “Download this ZEW Discussion Paper from our ftp server: ftp://ftp.zew.de/pub/zew-docs/dp/dp0431.pdf Non-Technical Summary Worker remittances constitute an increasingly important mechanism for the transfer of resources from developed to developing countries, and remittances are the second-largest sou”
Remittances and temporary migration (2010, background): “…migration as temporary, and who 4 See e.g. 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). consider their migration as permanent.”
Household Composition, Family Migration, and Community Context: Migrant Remittances in Four Countries (2005, background): “A common theme in the literature, for example, is the expectation to inherit land or other forms of wealth as a factor that at least partially motivates remittances (Stark and Lucas 1988, Hoddinott 1992, de la Brière et al. 2002).”