International migration offers individuals and their families the potential to experience immediate and large gains in their incomes, and offers a large number of other positive benefits to the sending communities and countries. However, there are also concerns about potential costs of...

This paper estimates a price elasticity using a flexible demand specification on survey data where prices are observed with error are are correlated with household characteristics. The demand function is modelled as being a polynomial (and more generally also including trigonometric terms) in...