Microeconomic impact of remittances on household welfare: Evidences from Bangladesh

• Authors: Wadood Syed Naimul , Hossain Amzad
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

This paper investigates the effect of both international and domestic remittances and migration on household welfare in Bangladesh. We employ a number of variables such as different types of poverty measures, household consumption expenditure, expenditures on health and education etc. to define household welfare. We use the Household Income and Expenditure survey 2010 to estimate the impact of remittance on household welfare. To address the issue of self-selection, we have used Propensity Score Matching (PSM) technique. The results reveal that although both internal and external remittance remittances have significant impact on reducing poverty and increasing consumption expenditure, the degree of impact is much higher for external remittance compared to internal remittance. However we find no impact of remittance on Household expenditure on education and healthcare.

Keywords

EN

Remittances; migration; Bangladesh; propensity score matching

Discipline

• ECONOMICS: ECONOMICS

• Publisher: Prague Development Center, Czech Republic
• Journal: Business and Economic Horizons
• Year: 2017
• Volume: Volume 13
• Issue: Issue 1
• Pages: 10-29

Dates

published

2017-04-15

Contributors

author

Wadood Syed Naimul

• Department of Economics, University of Dhaka, Bangladesh

author

Hossain Amzad

• Department of Economics, University of Dhaka, Bangladesh

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