Kraft, AleliGochoco, Jose Bernardo B. IIILazatin, Janine Elora M.2025-02-042025-02-042010-10https://selib.upd.edu.ph/etdir/handle/123456789/4417The prevailing trend in migration and remittances around the world, especially in the Philippines and the frequency of natural disasters affecting the Philippines are the two motivations for this study. This study aims to answer two related questions. First, it asks how remittances respond to natural disasters. The second question focuses on the effects of remittance inflows, as being affected by disasters, on the consumption behavior of households. It asks how remittances affect household consumption and expenditure. The first question determines whether remittances are cyclical or counter cyclical to income shocks. Estimations of pooled cross-section Philippine regional data show that remittances in the regional level are counter cyclical, while estimations to answer the second question show that per capita expenditures on food, health, and education move in the same direction as remittances. The study emphasizes the importance of remittances to recipient households in coping with income shocks and it is recommended that policy promote remittance flows especially during times when the onset of natural disasters pose severe damages in order to help affected households provide for their expenditures on food, health, and education.enRemittancesNatural disastersDisaster responseHousehold consumptionHousehold welfareThesis