remittances

Researchers working with measuring remittance data often run into one big problem — misreporting. To provide better guidance for their own and their colleagues’ work, Dean Yang,  professor of public policy and economics, and co-authors Giuseppe De...

As the Taliban regained control of Afghanistan it became more and more disconnected from global financial systems, cutting off ways Afghans living abroad send money home. Dean Yang, who studies the role of remittances in developing countries...

As the toll of the COVID-19 economic shutdown reverberates around the world, money sent home by foreign workers is drying up.  Hundreds of billions of dollars are sent every year from countries where immigrants work to countries they call home or...

Migrant remittances--or the money migrants send to friends and family in their countries of origin--make up one of the largest international financial flows to developing countries, says Dean Yang. Yet, we are still learning how different policies...

BBC’s “World Hacks,” a new weekly show dedicated to solving world problems, featured Dean Yang on its December 23 program: “Respect My Remittances.” Reporter Sahar Zand describes a tricky problem affecting 230 million migrant workers who send...

The Washington Post’s “Wonkblog” cites Dean Yang’s work in “The people who will suffer the most severe impact of Brexit don’t live in the U.K.” The article, by Max Ehrenfreund, was published on Saturday, June 25.“Immigrants working in Britain send...

The September 5th print edition of The Economist cites Dean Yang’s work in “Like manna from heaven: How a torrent of money from abroad reshapes an economy.” The article describes how economic migration and the resulting remittances (contributions...

At a microfinance bank in Maputo, Mozambique, Dean Yang and colleagues engaged clients in a lab-in-the-field experiment with interesting implications for those who care about increasing the number and level of remittances, the financial...