Alba, Michael M.; Sugui, Jessaine Soraya C. - Partenariat en Politiques Économiques (PEP), … - 2011
The literature has focused on motives to explain remittance behavior. But as non-anonymous transfers, remittances are liable to be influenced by giving norms as well. We formulate an empirical specification that takes account of remittance motives involving worker-household pairs. We find that...