Directing Remittances to Education with Soft and Hard Commitments : Evidence from a Lab-in-the-Field Experiment and New Product Take-up among Filipino Migrants in Rome

Directing Remittances to Education with Soft and Hard Commitments : Evidence from a Lab-in-the-Field Experiment and New Product Take-up among Filipino Migrants in Rome

This paper tests how migrants' willingness to remit changes when given the ability to direct remittances to educational purposes using different forms of commitment. Variants of a dictator game in a lab-in-the-field experiment with Filipino mi...

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Main Authors:	De Arcangelis, Giuseppe, Joxhe, Majlinda, McKenzie, David, Tiongson, Erwin, Yang, Dean
Format:	Policy Research Working Paper
Language:	English en_US
Published:	World Bank, Washington, DC 2014
Subjects:	ACCOUNTING AMOUNT OF REMITTANCES ANNUAL REMITTANCES ASYMMETRIC INFORMATION ATM CARD BANK ACCOUNT BANK ACCOUNTS BENEFICIARY CASH TRANSFER COLLEGES DEGREES DEVELOPING COUNTRIES ECONOMICS EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTIONS EDUCATIONAL PERFORMANCE EXCHANGE RATE EXTENSION FINANCIAL FLOWS FINANCIAL INSTRUMENTS GENDER HOME COUNTRIES HOME COUNTRY HOUSEHOLD TRANSFERS HUMAN CAPITAL INCOME INCOMES INCREASE IN REMITTANCES INFORMATION ASYMMETRIES INFORMATION ASYMMETRY INSURANCE INTERNATIONAL BANK INTERNATIONAL MIGRATION INTERNATIONAL ORGANIZATION FOR MIGRATION LABOR MARKET LITERATURE MARKETING MIGRANT REMITTANCES MIGRANT WORKERS MIGRANTS OCCUPATIONS OPEN ACCESS PAPERS POLITICAL ECONOMY PRIVATE EDUCATION PRIVATE SCHOOLS PRIVATE SECTOR REMITTANCE REMITTANCE DATA REMITTANCE PRODUCT REMITTANCE RECEIVER REMITTANCE RECEIVERS REMITTANCE RECIPIENTS REMITTANCES REPAYMENT RETURN RETURNS SAVINGS ACCOUNTS SCHOOLS SEND MONEY SEND REMITTANCES TRANSACTION TUITION TUITION PAYMENTS UNIVERSITIES UNIVERSITY DEGREE USE OF REMITTANCES
Online Access:	http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/2014/05/19592377/directing-remittances-education-soft-hard-commitments-evidence-lab-in-the-field-experiment-new-product-take-up-among-filipino-migrants-rome http://hdl.handle.net/10986/18790

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http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/2014/05/19592377/directing-remittances-education-soft-hard-commitments-evidence-lab-in-the-field-experiment-new-product-take-up-among-filipino-migrants-rome
http://hdl.handle.net/10986/18790

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