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Asymmetry of information within family networks
De Weerdt, Joachim; Génicot, Garance; Mesnard, Alice - 2014
migrants regarding non-migrants. We develop a static model of asymmetric information that contrasts altruism, pressure and … exchange as motives to transfer. The model makes predictions about the correlations between misperceptions and transfers under … these competing explanations. Testing these predictions in the data gives support to the model of transfers under pressure …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010398780
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Asymmetry of Information within Family Networks
De Weerdt, Joachim; Genicot, Garance; Mesnard, Alice - 2014
migrants regarding non-migrants. We develop a static model of asymmetric information that contrasts altruism, pressure and … exchange as motives to transfer. The model makes predictions about the correlations between misperceptions and transfers under … these competing explanations.Testing these predictions in the data gives support to the model of transfers under pressure or …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014532884
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Asymmetry of Information within Family Networks
De Weerdt, Joachim - 2014
migrants regarding non-migrants. We develop a static model of asymmetric information that contrasts altruism, pressure and … exchange as motives to transfer. The model makes predictions about the correlations between misperceptions and transfers under … these competing explanations. Testing these predictions in the data gives support to the model of transfers under pressure …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013047878
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Transfers and development: Easy come, easy go?
Christiaensen, Luc; Pan, Lei - 2010
Contrary to the popular notion that money that is easily earned, is also easily spent, economic theory holds that income is fungible. Drawing on the concept of mental accounting, this study theoretically explores when such a link between spending behaviour and the effort dispensed in obtaining...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010280063
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Chapter 6 Reciprocity: Its Scope, Rationales, and Consequences
Kolm, Serge-Christophe - In: Handbook of the economics of giving, altruism and …, (pp. 371-541). 2006
others because others are favourable to you (and not from an exchange in the strict sense). It rests on three possible … reciprocity game. Reciprocity is compared with other modes of transfers. Ways of explaining it are proposed. Its normative uses …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014023677
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On altruism and remittances
Antoniades, Alexis; Seshan, Ganesh; Weber, Roberto A.; … - 2013
We provide a direct test of the impact of altruism on remittances. From a sample of 105 male migrant workers from … use it as a proxy for altruism. When the entire sample is considered, we find that only migrants' income robustly explains … remittances. Altruism does not seem to matter. However, we document a strong positive relationship between altruism and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010208636
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On altruism and remittances
Antoniades, Alexis; Seshan, Ganesh; Weber, Roberto; … - 2013
We provide a direct test of the impact of altruism on remittances. From a sample of 105 male migrant workers from … use it as a proxy for altruism. When the entire sample is considered, we find that only migrants' income robustly explains … remittances. Altruism does not seem to matter. However, we document a strong positive relationship between altruism and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010332035
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You can pick your friends, but you need to watch them : loan screening and enforcement in a referrals field experiment
Bryan, Gharad; Karlan, Dean; Zinman, Jonathan - 2012
We examine a randomized trial that allows separate identification of peer screening and enforcement of credit contracts. A South African microlender offered half its clients a bonus for referring a friend who repaid a loan. For the remaining clients, the bonus was conditional on loan approval....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009534167
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Migration and Informal Insurance
Meghir, Costas - 2019
Do new migration opportunities for rural households change the nature and extent of informal risk sharing? We experimentally document that randomly offering poor rural households subsidies to migrate leads to a 40% improvement in risk sharing in their villages. We explain this finding using a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012866354
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Migration and Informal Insurance
Meghir, Costas - 2019
Do new migration opportunities for rural households change the nature and extent of informal risk sharing? We experimentally document that randomly offering poor rural households subsidies to migrate leads to a 40% improvement in risk sharing in their villages. We explain this finding using a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012866724