Garbage In, Gospel Out? : Controlling for the Underreporting of Remittances /

Empirical studies that use self-reported data on remittances to measure the latter's impact on microeconomic incentives mostly ignore the potential errors associated with reporting/measurement issues. An econometric procedure to control for these errors is developed and applied to household-lev...

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मुख्य लेखक: Melkonyan, Tigran
अन्य लेखक: Grigorian, David, Shonkwiler, J. Scott
स्वरूप: पत्रिका
भाषा:English
प्रकाशित: Washington, D.C. : International Monetary Fund, 2008.
श्रृंखला:IMF Working Papers; Working Paper ; No. 2008/230
ऑनलाइन पहुंच:Full text available on IMF
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