The issue of the nature of the altruism inherent in blood donation and the perverse effects of financial rewards for …) famously pointed out, providing monetary incentives to blood donors may crowd out blood supply as purely altruistic donors may … types of incentives are related to the likelihood of donating blood by exploiting a large sample representative of 15 …

This paper advances and empirically establishes the idea that altruism is an important determinant of individual …

Although the number of immigrant households in the Netherlands is substantial, the labor supply choices of this group …

Middle Eastern and North African (MENA) economies have had the highest degree of dependency on received remittances … developing countries. We examine the role of remittances in the trade balance of 11 labor-abundant MENA countries. Our panel … regression analysis shows that the inflow of remittances has had an increasing effect on trade deficits by triggering import …

welfare effect of future income uncertainty. We build a model of remittances and savings under income uncertainty and show … that an immigrant will increase his remittances in response to a first-order risk decrease in future income. Using changes … prediction of our model using panel data of bilateral remittances. Our theoretical prediction is supported by the data: there is …

countries. We analyze a novel bank-level data set from Nepal, where a steady inflow of remittances has contributed to foreign …

Remittances have greatly increased during recent years, becoming an important and reliable source of funds for many … developing countries. Therefore, there is a strong incentive for receiving countries to attract more remittances, especially … apply a two-step method akin to two stage least squares to deal with the endogeneity of remittances and potential …

Empirical evidence that migrants send home more remittances after disasters raises the question of whether remittances … remittances, which supports the idea that remittances act as (self-) insurance. We also show that purchasing formal funeral cover …