Bettin, Giulia; Lucchetti, Riccardo; Zazzaro, Alberto - In: Journal of Development Economics 99 (2012) 2, pp. 370-384
We estimate a remittance model in which we address endogeneity and reverse causality relationships between immigrants' remittances, pre-transfer income and consumption. In order to take into account the fact that a large share of individuals do not remit, instrumental variable variants of the...