Manila to Malaysia, Quezon to Qatar

Theoharides, Caroline

doi:10.3368/jhr.53.4.0216.7714r1

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“…One common use of these funds is to fund the schooling of the migrant's children and other relatives in the home country, with several studies finding increases in education as a result (e.g. Edwards and Ureta, 2003;Yang, 2008;Theoharides, 2014). However, migrants may differ from remittance recipients in their preferences for how money sent should be used (Ashraf et al, 2015), with physical separation and limited information making it difficult for migrants to ensure money is used the way they intend.…”

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confidence: 99%

Directing remittances to education with soft and hard commitments: Evidence from a lab-in-the-field experiment and new product take-up among Filipino migrants in Rome

Arcangelis

Joxhe

McKenzie

et al. 2015

Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization

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a b s t r a c tThis paper tests how migrants' willingness to remit changes when given the ability to direct remittances to educational purposes using different forms of commitment. Variants of a dictator game in a lab-in-the-field experiment with Filipino migrants in Rome are used to examine remitting behavior under varying degrees of commitment. These range from the soft commitment of simply labeling remittances as being for education, to the hard commitment of having funds directly paid to a school and the student's educational performance monitored. We find that the introduction of simple labeling for education raises remittances by more than 15%. Adding the ability to directly send this funding to the school adds only a further 2.2%. We randomly vary the information asymmetry between migrants and their most closely connected household, but find no significant change in the remittance response to these forms of commitment as information varies. Behavior in these games is then shown to be predictive of take-up of a new financial product called EduPay, designed to allow migrants to directly pay remittances to schools in the Philippines. We find this take-up is largely driven by a response to the ability to label remittances for education, rather than to the hard commitment feature of directly paying schools.

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Section: Introductionmentioning

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Directing remittances to education with soft and hard commitments: Evidence from a lab-in-the-field experiment and new product take-up among Filipino migrants in Rome

Arcangelis

Joxhe

McKenzie

et al. 2015

Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization

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“…Like the question on access to education, dual citizens’ access to employment opportunities in Pakistan has been debated in Pakistan. Although the relationship between employment rights and dual citizenship has not been explored in Pakistan, the link between migration and employment is implicit in the push and pull factors in outmigration (Lee and Kuzhabekova, 2018), the motivation to send back economic remittances to the country of origin (Theoharides, 2017).…”

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Transnational migration and dual citizenship: The conundrum of social and economic rights of dual citizens in Pakistan

Chaudry

Bilal

2022

Asian and Pacific Migration Journal

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Pakistan is among the Asian countries which permits dual citizenship. However, the dual citizenship privileges availed by overseas-based Pakistanis spark intense debate making Pakistani dual citizens and their entitlements a contested subject in the country. A qualitative study was conducted in the city of Rawalpindi asking what the attitudes of Pakistani citizens on dual citizenship are, as well as their positions on the rights of dual citizens with regard to education, employment and property ownership in Pakistan. In-depth interviews were conducted with two groups of interviewees: 25 Pakistani citizens and 18 Pakistani dual citizens. The findings suggest that Pakistani citizens resist the unconditional provision of socio-economic rights to Pakistani dual citizens considering their “split loyalties.” Most of the respondents argued against their employment in sensitive institutions such as the armed forces and judiciary, however, their right to education and property acquisition was supported in circumstances when it benefits Pakistan’s development. The perspectives of dual citizens also reflect ambivalence over how to resolve the allegiance conundrum and as a result, display divergent views on their privileges and rights in their home country.

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“…Since we observe provincial wages and emigration rates, we can directly quantify the expected gains of both high and low skilled emigration, as well as domestic skill premia; such that we need not rely upon proxy measures that are likely endogenous (Beine et al, 2008, p. 636). Since "Ideally, the incentive e↵ect of migration on human capital investment should be identified through the impact of migration prospects on expected returns to education" we employ as our outcome measure provincial enrollments in upper-secondary education as in Theoharides (2018). This ensures a tighter conceptual fit between our theory and empirics since we are able to study yearly dynamics, as opposed to relying on ex-post long-run aggregates.…”

Section: The European Committee Of the Regions [Cor] (2020)mentioning

confidence: 99%

“…The main contribution of this paper is in incorporating the dual incentive mechanisms to invest in human capital as catalyzed by both high and low skilled emigration into a unified theoretical construct; and in subsequently testing for both mechanisms in a causal empirical framework. Recent literature has rather focused on causally documenting individuals' incentives to invest in human capital along a single skill dimension in response to the international emigration of workers of specific skill types, in various cultural, geographical and historical contexts (Abarcar & Theoharides, 2020;Fernández-Sánchez, 2020;Theoharides, 2018;Shrestha, 2017;Dinkelman & Mariotti, 2016;Batista et al, 2012).…”

Section: The European Committee Of the Regions [Cor] (2020)mentioning

confidence: 99%