Acosta, Pablo; Calderon, Cesar; Fajnzylber, Pablo - 2008
Workers' remittances have become a major source of income for developing countries. However, little is still known … about their impact on poverty and inequality. Using a large cross-country panel dataset, we find that remittances in Latin … the use of different instruments that attempt to correct for the potential endogeneity of remittances. Household survey …