Remittance Responses to Temporary Discounts: A Field Experiment among Central American Migrants
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JEL classification:
- F24 - International Economics - - International Factor Movements and International Business - - - Remittances
- J61 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Mobility, Unemployment, Vacancies, and Immigrant Workers - - - Geographic Labor Mobility; Immigrant Workers
- O15 - Economic Development, Innovation, Technological Change, and Growth - - Economic Development - - - Economic Development: Human Resources; Human Development; Income Distribution; Migration
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This paper has been announced in the following NEP Reports:- NEP-DEV-2014-12-19 (Development)
- NEP-EXP-2014-12-19 (Experimental Economics)
- NEP-MIG-2014-12-19 (Economics of Human Migration)
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