Crayen, Dorothee; Hainz, Christa; Martinez, Christiane … - ifo Leibniz-Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung an der … - 2012
Empirical evidence that migrants send home more remittances after disasters raises the question of whether remittances are used to self-insure, substituting for both formal and informal insurance. We investigate this question using a unique dataset on the usage patterns of financial services by...