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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.

Access to Finance --- Banks and Banking Reform --- Debt Markets --- Finance and Financial Sector Development --- Health, Nutrition and Population --- Household income --- Household level --- Household surveys --- Impact of migration --- International food policy research institute --- International migration --- Labor market --- Labor markets --- Macroeconomics and Economic Growth --- Migrant --- Migrants --- Migration --- Migration process --- Policy implications --- Policy research --- Policy research working paper --- Population Policies --- Potential migrants --- Progress --- Remittance --- Remittances --- Returnee

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Food crops --- Malnutrition --- Nutrition policy --- Food --- Food policy --- Nutrition --- Nutrition and state --- State and nutrition --- Social policy --- Nutrition disorders --- Starvation --- Plants, Edible --- Field crops --- Horticultural crops --- Climatic factors --- Government policy --- Gross national product --- Land. Real estate --- Private finance --- Bangladesh

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