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| Type | Working Paper |
| Scope | Discipline-based scholarship |
| Title | On altruism and remittances |
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| Institution | University of Zurich |
| Series Name | Working paper series / Department of Economics |
| Number | 131 |
| ISSN | 1664-7041 |
| Number of Pages | 31 |
| Date | 2013 |
| Abstract Text | We provide a direct test of the impact of altruism on remittances. From a sample of 105 male migrant workers from Kerala, India working in Qatar, we elicit the propensity to share with others from their responses in a dictator game, and use it as a proxy for altruism. When the entire sample is considered, we find that only migrants' income robustly explains remittances. Altruism does not seem to matter. However, we document a strong positive relationship between altruism and remittances for those migrants that report a loan obligation back home, which is nearly half the sample. We explain the role of loan obligations with a standard remittance model, extended with reference-dependent preferences. |
| Official URL | http://www.econ.uzh.ch/static/wp/econwp131.pdf |
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| Keywords | Remittances, altruism, reference-dependent preferences, dictator game, Qatar, Altruismus, Migration, finanzielle Hilfe, Einkommen |