Grigorian, David
[Verfasser:in]
;
Melkonyan, Tigran A.
[Sonstige Person, Familie und Körperschaft];
Shonkwiler, J. Scott
[Sonstige Person, Familie und Körperschaft]
Garbage in, Gospel Out? Controlling for the Underreporting of Remittances
Erschienen in:IMF Working Papers, Vol. , pp. 1-19, 2008
Umfang:
1 Online-Ressource (21 p)
Sprache:
Englisch
DOI:
10.2139/ssrn.1278441
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Beschreibung:
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