TY - BOOK ID - 137597442 TI - Who Migrates Overseas and Is It Worth Their While? : An Assessment of Household Survey Data From Bangladesh AU - Sharma, Manohar AU - Zaman, Hassan PY - 2009 PB - Washington, D.C., The World Bank, DB - UniCat KW - Access to Finance KW - Banks and Banking Reform KW - Debt Markets KW - Finance and Financial Sector Development KW - Health, Nutrition and Population KW - Household income KW - Household level KW - Household surveys KW - Impact of migration KW - International food policy research institute KW - International migration KW - Labor market KW - Labor markets KW - Macroeconomics and Economic Growth KW - Migrant KW - Migrants KW - Migration KW - Migration process KW - Policy implications KW - Policy research KW - Policy research working paper KW - Population Policies KW - Potential migrants KW - Progress KW - Remittance KW - Remittances KW - Returnee UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:137597442 AB - The paper assesses the costs and household level benefits of migrating overseas from Bangladesh. The authors survey households who have had overseas migrants to assess their characteristics compared to non-migrants. They also compute various types of migration and remittance related transaction costs and discuss the channels by which overseas migration is financed, remittances sent and the constraints faced by the poorest. Using the Propensity Score Matching method, the paper finds that overseas migration conveys substantial benefits to families as measured by household consumption, use of modern agricultural inputs, and level of household savings. The authors also offer some possible policy directions to strengthen the returns from migration as well as reduce some of the costs. ER -