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Income-distribution Dynamics with Endogenous Fertility

Kremer, Michael - 2000

Developing countries with highly unequal income distributions, such as Brazil or South Africa, face an uphill battle in reducing inequality. Educated workers in these countries have a much lower birthrate than uneducated workers. Assuming children of educated workers are more likely to become...

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Worst-Case Bounds on R&D and Pricing Distortions : Theory with an Application Assuming Consumer Values Follow the World Income Distribution

Kremer, Michael - 2018

We prove that, for general demand and cost conditions and market structures, the fraction of first-best surplus that a monopolist is unable to extract in a market provides a tight upper bound on the relative distortions arising from firms' equilibrium decisions at all margins (entry and...

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Searching for Prosperity

Kremer, Michael - 2001

Quah's [1993a] transition matrix analysis of world income distribution based on annual data suggests an ergodic distribution with twin peaks at the rich and poor end of the distribution. Since the ergodic distribution is a highly non-linear function of the underlying transition matrix estimated...

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Wage Inequality and Segregation by Skill

Kremer, Michael - 1996

Evidence from the US, Britain, and France suggests that recent growth in wage inequality has been accompanied by greater segregation of high- and low-skill workers into separate firms. A model in which workers of different skill-levels are imperfect substitutes can simultaneously account for...

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Abundance from Abroad : Migrant Income and Long-Run Economic Development

Khanna, Gaurav; Murathanoglu, Emir; Theoharides, Caroline; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022

How does income from international migrant labor affect the long-run development of migrant-origin areas? We leverage the 1997 Asian Financial Crisis to identify exogenous changes in international migrant income across regions of the Philippines, derived from spatial variation in exposure to...

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International Migration, Remittances, and Household Investment : Evidence from Philippine Migrants' Exchange Rate Shocks

Yang, Dean - 2006

peso leads to increases in household remittances received from overseas. The estimated elasticity of Philippine …-peso remittances with respect to the Philippine/foreign exchange rate is 0.60. These positive income shocks lead to enhanced human …

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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 - 2015

This paper tests how migrants' willingness to remit changes when given the ability to direct remittances to educational … commitment of simply labeling remittances as being for education, to the hard commitment of having funds directly paid to a … raises remittances by more than 15 percent. Adding the ability to directly send this funding to the school adds only a …

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Remittance Responses to Temporary Discounts : A Field Experiment among Central American Migrants

Ambler, Kate - 2014

We study the impacts on remittances of offering migrants temporary discounts on remittance transaction fees. We … weeks after expiration of the discount. We find no evidence that the discounts cause migrants to shift remittances from … 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 - 2014

We implement a randomized experiment offering Salvadoran migrants matching funds for educational remittances, which are … remittances …

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Savings in Transnational Households : A Field Experiment among Migrants from El Salvador

Ashraf, Nava - 2014

-country savings does not affect remittances sent home by migrants …

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