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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 … other remittance channels, or to send remittances on behalf of other migrants. These findings are consistent with naïveté on …
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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
, but find no significant change in the remittance response to these forms of commitment as information varies. Behavior in …
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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 … in the migrant's host country (the sender of the remittance). The econometric results confirm the hypothesis. This …
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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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Asymmetric Information and Remittances: Evidence from Matched Administrative Data
Nyarko, Yaw; Joseph, Thomas; Wang, Shing-Yi - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2015
drives remittance behavior is the observability of income rather than other features of these fluctuations. The results are …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011189112
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011196339
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Time to Ship During Financial Crises
Berman, Nicolas; Martin, Philippe; Sousa, José De; … - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2012
We show that the negative impact of financial crises on trade is magnified for destinations with longer time-to-ship. A simple model where exporters react to an increase in the probability of default of importers by increasing their export price and decreasing their export volumes to...
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Firm Performance in a Global Market
De Loecker, Jan K.; Goldberg, Pinelopi - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2013
In this article we introduce an empirical framework to analyze how firm performance is affected by increased globalization. Using this framework we discuss recent work on measuring the impact of various shocks firms face in the global marketplace, such as reductions in trade costs (through...
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