Do Remittances Diminish Social Violence?

被引:6
作者
Hassan, Gazi [1 ]
Faria, Joao Ricardo [2 ]
机构
[1] Univ Waikato, Dept Econ, Hamilton 3240, New Zealand
[2] Univ Texas El Paso, Inst Policy & Econ Dev, El Paso, TX 79968 USA
关键词
HOMICIDE RATES; INTERNATIONAL MIGRATION; POLITICAL INSTABILITY; SENSITIVITY-ANALYSIS; WEAK INSTRUMENTS; EXCHANGE-RATE; CIVIL-WAR; INEQUALITY; CRIME; COUNTRIES;
D O I
10.1080/00220388.2015.1036039
中图分类号
F0 [经济学]; F1 [世界各国经济概况、经济史、经济地理]; C [社会科学总论];
学科分类号
0201 ; 020105 ; 03 ; 0303 ;
摘要
This paper represents the first attempt to formalise the relationship between remittances and social violence by developing a model that predicts that migrants' remittances lead to the reduction of social violence in the recipient economy under the condition that remittances increase the average product of labour. Using homicide data as an indicator of social violence, we tested our model's prediction. Controlling for the endogeneity problem with appropriate instruments, we found that remittances tend to reduce social violence. We performed sensitivity analysis on remittances in the empirical specification and found it robust with an unchanged negative sign.
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页码:1309 / 1325
页数:17
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