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Remittance Responses to Temporary Discounts: A Field Experiment among Central American Migrants
Ambler, Kate; Aycinena, Diego; Yang, Dean - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2014
We study the impacts on remittances of offering migrants temporary discounts on remittance transaction fees. We randomly assigned migrants from El Salvador and Guatemala 10-week remittance transaction fee discounts, and assess impacts using administrative transaction data and a post-experiment...
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Channeling Remittances to Education: A Field Experiment Among Migrants from El Salvador
Ambler, Kate; Aycinena, Diego; Yang, Dean - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2014
We implement a randomized experiment offering Salvadoran migrants matching funds for educational remittances, which are channeled directly to a beneficiary student in El Salvador chosen by the migrant. The matches lead to increased educational expenditures, higher private school attendance, and...
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Directing Remittances to Education with Soft and Hard Commitments: Evidence from a Lab-in-the-field Experiment and New Product Take-up Among Filipino Migrants in Rome
De Arcangelis, Giuseppe; McKenzie, David Mckenzie; … - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2015
This paper tests how migrants’ willingness to remit changes when given the ability to direct remittances to educational purposes using different forms of commitment. Variants of a dictator game in a lab-in-the-field experiment with Filipino migrants in Rome are used to examine remitting...
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Asymmetric Information and Remittances: Evidence from Matched Administrative Data
Nyarko, Yaw; Joseph, Thomas; Wang, Shing-Yi - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2015
' earnings in the United Arab Emirates affect their remittances. We consider three types of income fluctuations that are … observable by families at home: seasonalities, weather shocks and a labor reform. Remittances move with all of these income … drives remittance behavior is the observability of income rather than other features of these fluctuations. The results are …
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Aging and Death under a Dollar a Day
Duflo, Esther; Banerjee, Abhijit V. - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2007
This paper uses household survey data form several developing countries to investigate whether the poor (defined as those living under $1 or $2 dollars a day at PPP) and the non poor have different mortality rates in old age. We construct a proxy measure of longevity, which is the probability...
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Are the World’s Poorest Being Left Behind?
Ravallion, Martin - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2014
The traditional approach to poverty measurement puts no explicit weight on success at increasing the typical level of living of the poorest—raising the consumption floor. To address this deficiency, the paper defines and measures the expected value of the floor, allowing for transient effects...
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Is Sell-Side Research More Valuable in Bad Times?
Loh, Roger K.; Stulz, René M. - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2014
In bad times, uncertainty is high, so that investors find it more difficult to assess the prospects of the firms they invest in. Learning models suggest that in such times investors should, everything else equal, value informative signals such as analyst forecasts and recommendations more than...
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Are Bilateral Remittances Countercyclical?
Frankel, Jeffrey Alexander - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2009
to income in the worker's country of origin (the recipient of the remittance), while procyclical with respect to income …
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Motivating Migrants: A Field Experiment on Financial Decision-Making in Transnational Households
Seshan, Ganesh; Yang, Dean - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2014
We randomly assigned male migrant workers in Qatar invitations to a motivational workshop aimed at improving financial habits and encouraging joint decision-making with spouses back home in India. 13-17 months later, we surveyed migrants and wives to estimate intent-to-treat impacts in their...
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A Global View of Cross-Border Migration
di Giovanni, Julian; Levchenko, Andrei A.; Ortega, Francesc - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2014
This paper evaluates the global welfare impact of observed levels of migration using a quantitative multi-sector model of the world economy calibrated to aggregate and firm-level data. Our framework features cross-country labor productivity differences, international trade, remittances, and a...
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