International remittances and household expenditure patterns in Tamil Nadu

Valatheeswaran, C.

doi:10.1007/s41027-016-0042-3

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“…As for the other expenditures, communication expenses and food expenditures have increased compared to remittances in non-recipient households. The findings of the significant positive impact of remittances on food, education, health, savings and investment are also in line with other studies of impact evaluation such as Samaratunge et al (2020) for Sri Lanka, Mahapatro et al (2017) and Valatheeswaran (2015) for India and Yang (2008) for the Philippines.…”

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“…At the household level, a few cases of developing countries were analysed by several researchers that receive a substantial amount of remittances, including Sri Lanka (Samaratunge et al, 2020), Senegal (Randazzo & Piracha, 2019), China (Zhu et al, 2012), Colombia (Cardona-Sosa & Medina-Durango, 2006, Albania (Castaldo & Reilly, 2007), Mexico (Rivera & González, 2009), Tajikistan (Clement, 2011), Philippine (Tabuga, 2007) and Guatemala (Adams & Cuecuecha, 2010a). They all used householdlevel primary data to estimate the impact of remittances (internal and external) on migrant family expenditure patterns.…”

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International Remittances and Household Expenditure Patterns in Bangladesh

Dey,

Ahmed

2024

The Indian Economic Journal

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The study endeavours to investigate how the transfers of international remittances influence the expenditure behaviour of returnee migrant families in Bangladesh. The primary data were collected using the multi-stage stratified random sampling technique through a structured questionnaire from Tangail and Comilla on several expenditure characteristics of migrants. Propensity score matching (PSM) method is employed to assess the impact of remittances on expenditure patterns of returnee migrant households through the estimation of average treatment effects on the treated. The PSM technique has allowed us to evaluate the impact of remittances on several expenditure categories such as food, non-food, education, medical and so on. The study findings divulge that remittances exhibit a significant and positive impact on poverty reduction since they have contributed a lot in terms of income generation and increment of consumption expenditures. Moreover, compared to non-migrant families, migrant families are more exposed to positive behavioural transformations because of their spending on productive investments like non-durable goods, education and health care. Therefore, the findings underline the optimistic view of migration and development theory that foreign remittances support to increase the investments both in the physical and human capital of migrant families as well as to improve the wellbeing of Bangladeshi people. JEL Codes: D10, F24, O15

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International Remittances and Household Expenditure Patterns in Bangladesh

Dey,

Ahmed

2024

The Indian Economic Journal

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“…IHDS-I consists of a sample of 41,554 households which have been drawn using stratified random sampling method (Desai et al, 2009;Desai & Vanneman, 2005). In the IHDS-II survey, 83% of the households from IHDS-I were re-interviewed in 2011-2012 (Desai & Vanneman, 2012, 2015. Since we want to compare the migration status over time period, we consider only those households which are present in both the rounds.…”

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“…For instance, Mohanty, Dubey and Parida (2014) examines the determinants of remittances at household level while estimating its influence on household well-being. Valatheeswaran (2015) and Mahapatro, Bailey, James and Hutter (2017) examine the determinants of remittances at household level while estimating the expenditure patterns of households in Indian states. These studies do not consider the migration decision.…”

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Analyzing determinants of remittances with endogenous migration decision: evidence from India

Navita

Pal

2022

Migration and Development

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The paper investigates the determinants of remittances received by Indian households after considering the number of migrants as endogenous in the remittance decision. For this purpose, the paper uses the two rounds of India Human Development Survey conducted in the year 2004-2005 and 2011-2012. To account for the endogeneity of the number of migrants, the paper estimates the Two-Stage Residual Inclusion model. Here, initially the number of migrants are modelled using the negative binomial regression and then the residuals from this regression along with the original explanatory variables are included in the second-stage regression for the remittances. The results show that the number of migrants is endogenous and positively affects the total remittances received by the urban households. However, for rural households, there is no relation between the number of migrants and remittances. The findings also indicate the presence of altruism behind remittances for both rural and urban households. Along with this, some evidence of inheritance and insurance motives is also observed for rural and urban households, respectively.

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The impact of migrant remittances on poverty reduction in Bangladesh

Dey,

Basak

2024

Poverty & Public Policy

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This study aims to assess the impact of international remittances on poverty alleviation in Bangladeshi migrant families using household surveys. A Multi‐Stage Stratified Random Sampling approach was employed to collect data from four upazilas of the Tangail and Comilla districts. The propensity score matching (PSM) method is used to evaluate the impact of returnee workers' remittances on household economic welfare that to ensure poverty alleviation. The average treatment effect in treated outcomes using the PSM technique demonstrates that the land asset, income, and expenditure scenario of migrant households has improved significantly compared to nonmigrants, indicating a notable reduction in poverty. Moreover, international remittances also improved savings and investment status substantially, along with wealth accrual and land possession. Hence, international remittances proved to be a boon for migrant families as remittances drove returnee households towards lower poverty in Bangladesh. Intervention programs that include financial literacy components (including digital banking) for safe money transfer and low interest bank loans for migration costs are required to maintain remittance inflows and sustainable reductions in poverty.

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International remittances and household expenditure patterns in Tamil Nadu

Cited by 5 publications

References 17 publications

International Remittances and Household Expenditure Patterns in Bangladesh

International Remittances and Household Expenditure Patterns in Bangladesh

Analyzing determinants of remittances with endogenous migration decision: evidence from India

The impact of migrant remittances on poverty reduction in Bangladesh

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