全球智库信息集成服务系统(G2TT): Remittance Responses to Temporary Discounts: A Field Experiment among Central American Migrants

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来源类型	Working Paper
规范类型	报告
DOI	10.3386/w20522
来源ID	Working Paper 20522
	Remittance Responses to Temporary Discounts: A Field Experiment among Central American Migrants
	Kate Ambler; Diego Aycinena; Dean Yang
发表日期	2014-09-25
出版年	2014
语种	英语
摘要	We study the impacts on remittances of offering migrants temporary discounts on remittance transaction fees. We randomly assigned migrants from El Salvador and Guatemala 10-week remittance transaction fee discounts, and assess impacts using administrative transaction data and a post-experiment survey. Temporary discounts lead to substantial increases in the number of transactions and total amount remitted during the discount period. Surprisingly, these increases persist up to 20 weeks after expiration of the discount. We find no evidence that the discounts cause migrants to shift remittances from other remittance channels, or to send remittances on behalf of other migrants. These findings are consistent with naïveté on the part of migrants regarding remittance recipients' reference-dependent preferences.
主题	International Economics ; International Factor Mobility ; Labor Economics ; Unemployment and Immigration ; Development and Growth ; Development
URL	https://www.nber.org/papers/w20522
来源智库	National Bureau of Economic Research (United States)
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资源类型	智库出版物
条目标识符	http://119.78.100.153/handle/2XGU8XDN/578196
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714	Kate Ambler,Diego Aycinena,Dean Yang. Remittance Responses to Temporary Discounts: A Field Experiment among Central American Migrants. 2014.