Garbage In, Gospel Out? Controlling for the Underreporting of Remittances »
Journal Issue
Volume/Issue: 2008/230
Series: IMF Working Papers
Author(s): Tigran Melkonyan , David Grigorian , and J. Scott Shonkwiler
Publisher: INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND
Publication Date: 01 September 2008
DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.5089/9781451870886.001
ISBN: 9781451870886
Keywords: censored data, measurement error, remittances, migration, equation, remittance, survey,
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 econometri...