Stark, Oded; LaFave, Daniel - In: World Scientific Handbook of Global Migration, Volume …, (pp. 53-82). 2024
We model how the remittances by a migrant are influenced by the remittance behavior of fellow migrants with whom the … migrant compares himself. We show that an increase in the mean remittances of the group of fellow migrants encourages the … migrant to increase his own remittances, and that this response holds only for those who lag behind the group mean. We test …