Asymmetric Information and Remittances: Evidence from Matched Administrative Data
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where the migrant’s consumption, cm, depends on w, the migrant’s earnings in the host country, less r, the amount remitted to the household at home. The altruism weight attached to the household at home is given by ah. Consumption of the household at home is given by ch = c(y + r) where y is the earnings of household members at home. A migrant chooses a level of r to maximize his utility, and t...
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عنوان ژورنال: American Economic Journal: Applied Economics
سال: 2018
ISSN: 1945-7782,1945-7790
DOI: 10.1257/app.20160150