Remittances, expenditure patterns, and gender: Parametric and semiparametric evidence from Ecuador

Artikel

This study estimates the impact of migrants' remittances on households' spending decisions in Ecuador. Applying both parametric and semiparametric techniques, we find strong evidence that remittances enhance expenditures on education, health, and housing, but decrease expenditures on food. This supports the hypotheses that these inflows result in a stronger human capital accumulation and therefore improve the long-run production possibilities. We do not find strong differences in the impact on expenditure patterns of male and female household heads. The sex of the remitter and the receiver affects the expenditure behavior only slightly.

Object Details

• Language: Englisch

References and Relationships

• Bibliographic citation: Journal: IZA Journal of Migration ; ISSN: 2193-9039 ; Volume: 2 ; Year: 2013 ; Pages: 1-19 ; Heidelberg: Springer

Classification and Topics

• Classification: Wirtschaft ; Semiparametric and Nonparametric Methods: General ; Multiple or Simultaneous Equation Models: Truncated and Censored Models; Switching Regression Models ; Consumer Economics: Empirical Analysis ; Remittances ; Economics of Gender; Non-labor Discrimination
• Subject: naturalisation ; Latvia ; non-citizens ; migrants

Contributors, Places and Time

• Event: Geistige Schöpfung
• (who): Göbel, Kristin
• Event: Veröffentlichung
• (who): Springer
• (where): Heidelberg
• (when): 2013

Further information

• DOI: doi:10.1186/2193-9039-2-1
• Handle: http://hdl.handle.net/10419/92258
• Last update: 10.03.2025, 11:44 AM CET