This section also sets out the empirical approach for the paper including model 10 Though the impact of remittances on recipient households is not the focus of this research, two recent studies have used microdata to examine the impact of remittances on households in the Philippines. [...] Obligations to the remitter’s family encompass a range of factors to do with the demographics of the family, such as the age, gender and marital status of the household head, the presence of children, and the position of the remitter in the family.12 As suggested by Houle and Schallenberg (2008) the financial circumstances of the family are also likely to be important determinants of remittance be [...] In the empirical analysis, household characteristics include the presence of children aged 1 or less, 7 or less, and 15 or less, the region in the Philippines in which the household resides, whether the household received dividend income during the year, whether they received pension income during the year, the education level of the household head, the marital status of the household head, and th [...] According to the FIES documentation, the person responding as the household head must be physically present in the household at the time of the survey. [...] It is also worth noting that the results for own education and the education of the household head are largely unaffected by the inclusion of a set of fixed effects for country of residence rather than the grouped region controls reported in Table 5. Since a non-trivial proportion of workers do not remit money, OLS is not appropriate for estimating the amount of remittances sent home.