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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Autore principale: Melkonyan, Tigran
Altri autori: Grigorian, David, Shonkwiler, J. Scott
Natura: Periodico
Lingua:English
Pubblicazione: Washington, D.C. : International Monetary Fund, 2008.
Serie:IMF Working Papers; Working Paper ; No. 2008/230
Accesso online:Full text available on IMF