Directing Remittances to Education with Soft and Hard Commitments : Evidence from a Lab-in-the-field Experiment and New Product Take-up Among Filipino Migrants in Rome
Giuseppe De Arcangelis, Majlinda Joxhe, David McKenzie, Erwin Tiongson, Dean Yang
This paper tests how migrants' willingness to remit changes when given the ability to direct remittances to educational purposes using different forms of commitment. Variants of a dictator game in a lab-in-the-field experiment with Filipino migrants in Rome are used to examine remitting behavior under varying degrees of commitment. These range from the soft commitment of simply labeling remittances as being for education, to the hard commitment of having funds directly paid to a school and the student's educational performance monitored. We find that the introduction of simple labeling for education raises remittances by more than 15 percent. Adding the ability to directly send this funding to the school adds only a further 2.2 percent. We randomly vary the information asymmetry between migrants and their most closely connected household, but find no significant change in the remittance response to these forms of commitment as information varies. Behavior in these games is then shown to be predictive of take-up of a new financial product called EduPay, designed to allow migrants to directly pay remittances to schools in the Philippines. We find this take-up is largely driven by a response to the ability to label remittances for education, rather than to the hard commitment feature of directly paying schools
Year of publication: |
January 2015
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Authors: | De Arcangelis, Giuseppe |
Other Persons: | McKenzie, David (contributor) ; Yang, Dean (contributor) ; Tiongson, Erwin (contributor) ; Joxhe, Majlinda (contributor) |
Institutions: | National Bureau of Economic Research (contributor) |
Publisher: |
Cambridge, Mass : National Bureau of Economic Research |
Subject: | Rücküberweisungen | Remittances | Philippinen | Philippines | Italien | Italy | Intergenerationale Übertragung | Intergenerational transfer | Ausbildungsfinanzierung | Financing of vocational education | Spieltheorie | Game theory | Finanzprodukt | Financial product | Zahlungsbereitschaftsanalyse | Willingness to pay |
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freely available
Extent: | 1 Online-Ressource |
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Series: | NBER working paper series ; no. w20839 |
Type of publication: | Book / Working Paper |
Language: | English |
Notes: | Mode of access: World Wide Web System requirements: Adobe [Acrobat] Reader required for PDF files Hardcopy version available to institutional subscribers. |
Other identifiers: | 10.3386/w20839 [DOI] |
Source: | ECONIS - Online Catalogue of the ZBW |
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