Bharati Basu

Biographic Data

ID5847643
NAMEBharati Basu
GIVEN NAMESBharati
FAMILY NAMEBasu
SIGNATUREBASU B
AFFILIATIONSCentral Michigan University
ORCID0000-0003-3521-9195
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS7
TOTAL CITATIONS3
AUTHOR COUNT7
EDITOR COUNT0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR2004
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2026
H-INDEX1

  • Can International Income Transfers Reduce the Use of Child Labour

    Open AccessBharati BasuARTICLEMigration and Development2026

    This article shows how a policy of income transfer, such as remittance payments from a high-income country, can reduce child labour, a target for the UN Sustainable Development Goals, by turning the terms of trade in favour of the transfer-receiving country. This is a novel policy measure because it utilises an existing international economic event, known as income transfer, without imposing a significant financial burden on national governments.…

  • Investment Expenditure Behavior of Remittance Receiving Households: An Analysis Using Reserve Bank of India Data

    Open AccessBharati Basu, Irudaya RajanARTICLEMIGRATION LETTERS2018

    Although it is the world’s largest recipient of remittances, India lacks information about the investment behavior of its remittance receiving households. Using data from Reserve Bank of India and the Tobit analysis, this paper examines how remittances, different household and migrant characteristics have affected both the propensity to invest and the amount of investment by the remittance receiving households. The findings have significant impli…

  • International Remittance Payments and the Global Economy

    Bharati Basu, James T Bang et al.BOOKInternational Remittance Payments…2014

    International Remittance Payments are described mainly as money sent by immigrants to their families and friends in their home countries. These payments provide an important source of income that is mostly used to provide for a variety of basic needs of the non-migrating members of immigrant families and thus remittance payments can be considered as a tool to reduce the poverty level of the labor sending countries. However, remittances are also u…

  • Insurance and remittances: New evidence from Latin American immigrants to the US

    Open AccessBharati Basu, James BangARTICLEMIGRATION LETTERS2013

    This paper examines how the probability of sending remittances and the level of remittances sent are influenced by immigrants’ desire to insure against uncertainty, as opposed to factors that result in remittances with altruistic motives. Using for the first time both 1) data from the Mexican Migration Project and the Latin American Migration Project and 2) the predicted probability of unemployment in the destination country as a measure of immig…

  • Net Exports and the Avoidance of High Unemployment During Reconversion, 1945–1947

    Open AccessJason E Taylor, Bharati Basu et al.ARTICLEThe Journal of Economic History2011References: 3

    While economists predicted a return to double-digit unemployment rates during the reconversion from World War II, this outcome did not materialize. This article explores the role that the significant rise in net exports—which accounted for nearly 4 percent of GDP in 1946 and 1947—played in helping the United States avoid a postwar unemployment problem. Using an input-output analysis, we find that the export surplus directly accounted for 1.33 mil…

  • International Labor Mobility: Unemployment and Increasing Returns to Scale

    Bharati BasuBOOKInternational Labor Mobility2004

    Migration of workers within and across national boundaries is an important issue in an age of increasing levels of innovation and invention which economizes cost and helps large scale production.This book analyses the implications of migration for the levels of unemployment and distinguishes between unemployment which can be attributed to government policy and that which can be generated by a particular behavior of employers and workers. The disc…

  • Domestic violence against women, and their economic dependence: A count data analysis

    Bharati Basu, Felix FamoyeARTICLEReview of Political Economy2004Cited by: 3References: 5

    In examining the relation between violence against women and women's economic dependence, existing literature treats the incidents of violence either as a binary or as a continuous variable. However, the incidents of violence is a count variable and, quite often, data on the number of violent incidents is categorized. This paper estimates the relation between violence against women and economic dependence by using a categorized negative binomial …