Garbage In, Gospel Out? Controlling for the Underreporting of Remittances

Empirical studies that use self-reported data on remittances to measure the latter's impact on microeconomic incentives mostly ignore the potential errors associated with reporting/measurement issues. An econometric procedure to control for these errors is developed and applied to household-level data from Armenia. We find evidence of systematic under-reporting of remittances. After controlling for this, we find a strong negative impact of remittances on incentives to work

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Year of publication:	2008
Authors:	Melkonyan, Tigran A.
Other Persons:	Grigorian, David A. (contributor) ; Shonkwiler, J. Scott (contributor)
Publisher:	Washington : International Monetary Fund
Subject:	Rücküberweisungen \| Remittances \| Theorie \| Theory \| Arbeitsangebot \| Labour supply \| Armenien \| Armenia

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Extent:	Online-Ressource (21 p)
Series:	IMF Working Papers
Type of publication:	Book / Working Paper
Language:	English
Notes:	Description based upon print version of record Contents; I. Introduction; II. Literature Review; III. Econometric Model; A. Latent treatment of remittances; B. Labor supply model; C. Background and Data Description; IV. Model Specification and Estimation; A. Equation Specification; B. Model Estimation; V. Conclusions; Tables; 1. Joint Model Estimation; 2. Definitions of Variables; References
ISBN:	978-1-4518-7088-6 ; 978-1-4519-1541-9 ; 978-1-4518-7088-6
Source:	ECONIS - Online Catalogue of the ZBW

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