Extending a Lifeline or Cutting Losses? : The Effects of Conflict on Household Receipts of Remittances in Pakistan

The author examines the causal effects of long-term exposure to conflict, measured at the micro level, on households’ receipt of remittances, among households residing in areas affected by the 2010 floods in Pakistan. Using a dataset of 7802 households, representative of all flood-affected areas of...

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Main Author:	Ghorpade, Yashodhan
Format:	Journal Article
Published:	Elsevier 2018
Subjects:	REMITTANCES CONFLICT FLOODS RISK MANAGEMENT LONG-TERM CONFLICT
Online Access:	http://hdl.handle.net/10986/29519

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spelling	okr-10986-295192021-05-26T09:05:19Z Extending a Lifeline or Cutting Losses? : The Effects of Conflict on Household Receipts of Remittances in Pakistan Ghorpade, Yashodhan REMITTANCES CONFLICT FLOODS RISK MANAGEMENT LONG-TERM CONFLICT The author examines the causal effects of long-term exposure to conflict, measured at the micro level, on households’ receipt of remittances, among households residing in areas affected by the 2010 floods in Pakistan. Using a dataset of 7802 households, representative of all flood-affected areas of Pakistan in 2010, IV estimation is employed to overcome the endogeneity of conflict exposure and remittance receipts, and control for a range of confounding factors. Contrary to the literature from country-level case studies, it is found that long-term exposure to conflict reduces households’ likelihood of receiving any remittances at all, as well as the average amounts of remittances received. However for households in the lowest food consumption expenditure quintile, conflict has a positive effect on the likelihood of remittance receipts, which provides evidence for the existence of heterogeneous effects as well as a significant micro–macro gap in understanding the causal effects of conflict on remittance receipts. 2018-03-27T15:55:02Z 2018-03-27T15:55:02Z 2017-11 Journal Article World Development 0305-750X http://hdl.handle.net/10986/29519 CC BY-NC-ND 3.0 IGO http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/igo World Bank Elsevier Publications & Research :: Journal Article Publications & Research South Asia Pakistan
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spellingShingle	REMITTANCES CONFLICT FLOODS RISK MANAGEMENT LONG-TERM CONFLICT Ghorpade, Yashodhan Extending a Lifeline or Cutting Losses? : The Effects of Conflict on Household Receipts of Remittances in Pakistan
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description	The author examines the causal effects of long-term exposure to conflict, measured at the micro level, on households’ receipt of remittances, among households residing in areas affected by the 2010 floods in Pakistan. Using a dataset of 7802 households, representative of all flood-affected areas of Pakistan in 2010, IV estimation is employed to overcome the endogeneity of conflict exposure and remittance receipts, and control for a range of confounding factors. Contrary to the literature from country-level case studies, it is found that long-term exposure to conflict reduces households’ likelihood of receiving any remittances at all, as well as the average amounts of remittances received. However for households in the lowest food consumption expenditure quintile, conflict has a positive effect on the likelihood of remittance receipts, which provides evidence for the existence of heterogeneous effects as well as a significant micro–macro gap in understanding the causal effects of conflict on remittance receipts.
format	Journal Article
author	Ghorpade, Yashodhan
author_facet	Ghorpade, Yashodhan
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title	Extending a Lifeline or Cutting Losses? : The Effects of Conflict on Household Receipts of Remittances in Pakistan
title_short	Extending a Lifeline or Cutting Losses? : The Effects of Conflict on Household Receipts of Remittances in Pakistan
title_full	Extending a Lifeline or Cutting Losses? : The Effects of Conflict on Household Receipts of Remittances in Pakistan
title_fullStr	Extending a Lifeline or Cutting Losses? : The Effects of Conflict on Household Receipts of Remittances in Pakistan
title_full_unstemmed	Extending a Lifeline or Cutting Losses? : The Effects of Conflict on Household Receipts of Remittances in Pakistan
title_sort	extending a lifeline or cutting losses? : the effects of conflict on household receipts of remittances in pakistan
publisher	Elsevier
publishDate	2018
url	http://hdl.handle.net/10986/29519
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Extending a Lifeline or Cutting Losses? : The Effects of Conflict on Household Receipts of Remittances in Pakistan

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