Remittances and Poverty in Migrants’ Home Areas: Evidence from the Philippines

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Migration, Remittances, Poverty, and Human Capital: Conceptual and Empirical Challenges (2007, background): “Yang and Martinez (2005) and Yang (2006) exploit the “natural experiment” of the 1997 Asian financial crisis to construct an interesting instrument for remittances (not migration).”
What is the Impact of International Remittances on Poverty and Inequality in Latin America (2007, background): “3 See, among others, Adams (2004, 2006) respectively on Guatemala and Ghana, Lopez-Córdova (2005) and Taylor et al. (2005) on Mexico, and Yang and Martinez (2006) on the Philippines.”
Do remittances improve income inequality? An instrumental variable quantile analysis of the Kenyan case (2016, background): “The first (Stark et al., 1986; Taylor, 1992; Taylor and Wyatt, 1996; Yang and Martínez, 2005; Wouterse, 2008) assumes remittances to be exogenous and decomposes the Gini coefficient of income or expenditure distribution according to the impact of different exogenous sources of income, including remi”