International Migration, Remittances, and Household Investment: Evidence from Philippine Migrants' Exchange Rate Shocks
By Dean Yang. 2008
1,206 citations recorded by the source corpus.
Subfields: Sociology and Political Science
View Paper: https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/b88980dc3cf285cb13dcaf37fc50eaf30683bdd4
Citations in the corpus
- Remittances, schooling, and child labor in Mexico (2012, neutral): “In contrast, Yang (2008), the most closely related paper to this one, studies the direct impact of 2 remittances using a household panel data from the Philippines.”
- The economic impact of international remittances on poverty and household consumption and investment in Indonesia (2010, neutral): “Changes in rainfall have also been used before in the literature as an instrumental variable in the cases of Mexico, the Philippines, and Guatemala (Munshi, 2003; Yang and Choi, 2007; 13 Adams and Cuecuecha, forthcoming).”
- The Perils of Unearned Foreign Income: Aid, Remittances, and Government Survival (2012, neutral): “…tracked and thus untaxed by the government (Chami et al. 2008; de Luna Martinez 2005).6 Most country and cross-country studies find that households spend their remittance income on consumer and durable goods, as well as investments in health care and education (e.g., Chami et al. 2008; Yang 2005).”
- The Effect of Male Migration on Employment Patterns of Women in Nepal (2009, neutral): “Cabegin (2006) and Yang (2008) examine the effect of overseas work-related migration on the market participation and labor supply behavior of spouses left behind in the Philippines.”
- Seasonal Migration and Early Childhood Development (2010, neutral): “Similarly, Yang (2006) and Mansuri (2006) find positive effects of remittances on schooling in the Philippines and Pakistan.1 Considering other investments in human capital, evidence of positive effects exists on health expenditures (Amuedo-Dorantes and Pozo 2005), and in infant mortality and…”
- International Migration and the Developing World (2010, neutral): “…remittances high when sending-country income is low relative to the destination country, and low when sending-country income is relatively high.42 Yang (2008) examines changes in remittances to households in the Philippines before and after the Asian financial crisis, which he uses as a natural…”