The rationale is that general economic conditions in destination countries determine the likelihood of remittances without directly affecting school enrollment rates at the origin.
Our results show that the migration of many people from the same family negatively influences the likelihood of sending remittances and the amount of remittances.
In contrast, regarding use of engineer and awareness of building code for safe construction, the likelihood of the remittance contributing to better quality and strong house using engineer and awareness of building code for safe construction tends to decrease.
Male migrants have a 12 percentage point lower likelihood of sending remittances after marriage than before the event.
First, in line with the literature (Acosta 2011; Coon 2016; Davis and Brazil 2016), we connect an individual's likelihood of receiving remittances to historical migration networks.
The OLS model predicts a difference of 8 percentage points in the likelihood of sending remittances for men who marry a German rather than a non-German spouse and a difference of 6 percentage points for female migrants.
Under the assumption of altruism, these studies show that the likelihood of sending remittances and the amounts transferred are increasing functions of migrant income (Lucas and Stark 1985; Vanwey 2004).
Comparing migrants who marry a German and a non-German, I find that the likelihood of sending remittances is significantly lower for those who intermarry among both male and female migrants.
Secondly, our results show that the employment situation of the migrant significantly influences the likelihood of sending remittances, in particular, unemployed or inactive migrants are less likely to remit.
The effect is economically and statistically insignificant for male migrants who intermarry before entering the country, but male migrants who marry a German rather than a non-German spouse after migration are associated with a 8 percentage point lower likelihood of sending remittances (or 28%), ceteris paribus.
