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Gender differences in remittance behaviour: evidence from Vietnam
This paper investigates the role of gender in remittance behavior among migrants using the 2004 Vietnam Migration Survey data. The gender dimension to remittance behavior has not featured strongly in the existing literature and our findings thus contain novel appeal. In addition, we use estimates from both homoscedastic and heteroscedastic tobit models to decompose the raw gender difference in remittances into treatment and endowment components. We find little evidence that gender differences in remittances are attributable to behavioral differences between men and women, and this finding is invariant to whether the homoscedastic or heteroscedastic tobit is used in estimation.
History
Publication status
- Published
Journal
Singapore Economic ReviewISSN
0217-5908Publisher
World Scientific PublishingExternal DOI
Issue
2Volume
56Page range
215-237Department affiliated with
- Economics Publications
Full text available
- No
Peer reviewed?
- Yes