Migrants' Remittances and the Household in Africa: A Review of Evidence

Azam, Jean‐Paul; Gubert, Flore

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“…However, remittances can decrease farm efficiency when offering an income that weakens the quality and intensity of work of other family members. Azam and Gubert found that remittances provided incentives to shirk and reduce the intensity of work as other family members expect migrants to compensate them for any consumption shortfall [26].…”

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Impacts of Off-Farm Employment on Irrigation Water Efficiency in North China

Yin

Huang

Yang

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Water

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This paper examines the impacts of off-farm employment on irrigation water efficiency (IWE) with a set of household level data collected in Hebei Province in North China. A major finding is that households with higher shares of laborers working off-farm locally seem to achieve higher IWEs. The effect of local off-farm employment is greater among those households that have made more efforts to use furrow irrigation. We also find that households with higher shares of elderly laborers and those with larger land holding are associated with lower IWEs. Households with better soil quality and those that pump from deeper wells are associated with higher IWEs.

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Impacts of Off-Farm Employment on Irrigation Water Efficiency in North China

Yin

Huang

Yang

et al. 2016

Water

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“…A large number of studies have documented the benefits of the migrants' remittances to home communities (e.g., Stark and Bloom 1985;Hoddinott 1992Hoddinott , 1994Azam and Gubert 2006;Amuedo-Dorantes and Pozo 2004), but few have considered the trade-off between the increased material resources from migration and the consequences resulting from the parental absence and migratory influence. Parental migration is likely to affect the time and labour allocation in both productive and reproductive activities, including home production and time spent in childcare (Stark and Bloom 1985;Glick and Sahn 1998).…”

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Migration decisions of parents and the nutrition intakes of children left at home in rural China

Mi¹,

Chang²

2013

AGR ECON-CZECH

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Abstract:Using an individual-level dataset drawn from the China Health and Nutrition Survey in 2000, 2004, 2006, and 2009, this paper investigated whether the parental labour migration is associated with defi ciencies in the nutrition intakes of children left at home in the rural area. Th e results show that the parental migration increases the probability of deficiency in the energy and protein intake of children left at home. Although several studies have pointed out that the parental remittances can increase the economic well-being of their children at home, this study points to an undesired cost of the parental migration. Governments should establish eff ective policies to promote the benefi ts of migration while minimizing the potential costs. In particular, specifi c social welfare programs targeting on children in the rural area can be designed to insecure the nutritional health of children left at home in the rural area.

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“…Researchers have found both positive [1][2][3][4][5][6][7][8][9][10][11][12][13] and negative [14][15][16] impacts of remittances on economic growth. Also, there are studies that show that no impact of remittances on economic growth [17].…”

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Remittances, Development Level, and Long-Run Economic Growth

Matuzevičiūtė

Butkus

2016

Economies

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This paper seeks to enrich the field of research on the topic of the impact of remittances on long-run economic growth. Using an unbalanced panel data covering a sample of 116 countries with different development levels over the period 1990-2014, we studied the interaction between remittances and the level of economic development, as well as its impact on long-run economic growth-because the impact of remittances could be influenced by the development level of the receiving countries. In parallel, we explored the hypothesis about diminishing a country's capacity to use remittances for promoting long-run economic growth as the abundance of remittances increases. To control the endogeneity while estimating the impact of remittances on long-run economic growth, we used OLS (ordinary least squares) with FD (first differences) transformation and FE (fixed effects) approaches and other controls of long-run growth. Our results showed that in general remittances have a positive impact on long-run economic growth, but the impact differs based on the country's economic development level and the abundance of remittances in the economy.

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Migrants' Remittances and the Household in Africa: A Review of Evidence

Cited by 193 publications

References 24 publications

Impacts of Off-Farm Employment on Irrigation Water Efficiency in North China

Impacts of Off-Farm Employment on Irrigation Water Efficiency in North China

Migration decisions of parents and the nutrition intakes of children left at home in rural China

Remittances, Development Level, and Long-Run Economic Growth

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