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Garbage in, gospel out? : controlling for the underreporting of remittances /
Empirical studies that use self-reported data on remittances to measure the latter's impact on microeconomic incentives mostly ignore the potential errors associated with reporting/measurement issues. An econometric procedure to control for these errors is developed and applied to household-lev...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Autores principales: | , , |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Washington, D.C. :
International Monetary Fund,
©2008.
©2008 |
| Colección: | IMF working paper ;
WP/08/230. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | Empirical studies that use self-reported data on remittances to measure the latter's impact on microeconomic incentives mostly ignore the potential errors associated with reporting/measurement issues. An econometric procedure to control for these errors is developed and applied to household-level data from Armenia. We find evidence of systematic under-reporting of remittances. After controlling for this, we find a strong negative impact of remittances on incentives to work. |
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| Notas: | At head of title: Middle East and Central Asia Department. "October 2008." |
| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (19 pages) |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 17-19). |
| ISBN: | 1282841815 9781282841819 9781451870886 1451870884 |