TY  - RPRT
        AU  - Naufal, George S
        TI  - Who Remits? The Case of Nicaragua
        PY  - 2007/Sep/
        PB  - Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)
        CY  - Bonn
        T2  - IZA Discussion Paper
        IS  - 3081
        UR  - https://www.iza.org/index.php/publications/dp3081
        AB  - In this paper I use a unique data set from Nicaragua to asses the behavior of persons who send money back home. I estimate a heteroskedastic Tobit with a known form of variance to estimate the correlation of the remitting decisions of migrants. Working, residing in a developed country and belonging to the nuclear family positively affect remittances. The labor status and the level of education of the head of the household both affect remittances. The decision to participate in the remitting process appears to be positively related across migrants within the same receiving household.
        KW  - decision making
KW  - censored regression
KW  - remittances
KW  - migration
KW  - Central America
KW  - Nicaragua
        ER  -