D Yang - 2006 - nber.org
Millions of households in developing countries receive financial support from family
members working overseas. How do migrant earnings affect origin-household investments?
This paper examines Philippine households' responses to overseas members' economic ...
D Yang… - 2005 - papers.ssrn.com
Abstract: Millions of households in developing countries receive financial support from family
members working overseas. How do the economic prospects of overseas migrants affect
origin-household investments-in particular, in child human capital and household ...
D Yang… - The World Bank Economic Review, 2007 - World Bank
Abstract Do remittances sent by overseas migrants serve as insurance for recipient
households? In a study of how remittances from overseas respond to income shocks
experienced by Philippine households, changes in income are found to lead to changes ...
S Maccini… - 2006 - papers.ssrn.com
Abstract: How sensitive is long-run individual well-being to environmental conditions early in
life? This paper examines the effect of weather conditions around the time of birth on the
health, education, and socioeconomic outcomes of Indonesian adults born between 1953 ...
D Yang - 2006 - nber.org
How well do countries cope with the aftermath of natural disasters? In particular, do
international financial flows help buffer countries in the wake of disasters? This paper
focuses on hurricanes (one of the most common and destructive types of disasters), and ...
D Yang, A Martínez - 2005 - works.bepress.com
Between 1965 and 2000, individuals living outside their countries of birth grew from 2.2
percent to 2.9 percent of world population, reaching a total of 175 million people in 2001. 1
The remittances that these migrants send to origin countries are an important but poorly ...
D Yang - 2006 - nber.org
This paper distinguishes between target-earnings and life-cycle motivations for return
migration by examining how Philippine migrants' return decisions respond to major,
unexpected exchange rate changes in their overseas locations (due to the Asian financial ...
X Giné… - Journal of Development Economics, 2009 - Elsevier
Does production risk suppress the demand for credit? We implemented a randomized field
experiment to ask whether provision of insurance against a major source of production risk
induces farmers to take out loans to adopt a new crop technology. The study sample was ...
X Gine… - Policy Research Working Paper, 2007 - agriskmanagementforum.org
Abstract The Policy Research Working Paper Series disseminates the findings of work in
progress to encourage the exchange of ideas about development issues. An objective of the
series is to get the findings out quickly, even if the presentations are less than fully ...
D Yang - The Review of Economics and Statistics, 2008 - MIT Press
Abstract Increased enforcement can displace crime to alternative lawbreaking methods. This
paper examines a customs reform in the Philippines that raised enforcement against a
specific method of avoiding import duties. Increased enforcement applied only to ...
D Yang - Manuscrito no publicado, Gerald R. Ford …, 2003 - www-personal.umich.edu
Abstract This paper uses a novel approach to shed light on the impact of remittances on
child human capital in the Philippines. Overseas Filipino workers send remittances home
from many foreign countries, so exchange rate fluctuations due to the 1997 Asian financial ...
A Park, D Yang, X Shi… - The Review of Economics and Statistics, 2010 - MIT Press
Abstract We ask how export demand shocks associated with the Asian financial crisis
affected Chinese exporters. We construct firm-specific exchange rate shocks based on the
precrisis destinations of firms' exports. Because the shocks were unanticipated and large, ...
L Brune, X Gine, J Goldberg… - 2011 - papers.ssrn.com
Abstract: This paper reports the results of a field experiment that randomly assigned
smallholder cash crop farmers formal savings accounts. In collaboration with a microfinance
institution in Malawi, the authors tested two primary treatments, offering either: 1)" ordinary ...
A Park, D Yang, X Shi… - 2009 - nber.org
We ask how export demand shocks associated with the Asian financial crisis affected
Chinese exporters. We construct firm-specific exchange rate shocks based on the pre-crisis
destinations of firms' exports. Because the shocks were unanticipated and large, they are ...
SL Maccini… - 2008 - nber.org
How sensitive is long-run individual well-being to environmental conditions early in life?
This paper examines the effect of weather conditions around the time of birth on the health,
education, and socioeconomic outcomes of Indonesian adults born between 1953 and ...
D Yang - Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy, University of …, 2005 - cepr.org.uk
Abstract Can governments successfully combat bureaucratic corruption by “hiring integrity”
from the private sector? This paper examines the impact of hiring private firms to collect
information for government anti-corruption efforts. In the past two decades, a number of ...
D Yang - Journal of Law and economics, 2008 - JSTOR
Abstract Can governments improve bureaucratic performance by “hiring integrity” from the
private sector? In the past 2 decades, a number of developing countries have hired private
firms to conduct preshipment inspections of imports, generating independent data on the ...
[CITATION] How remittances help migrant families
D Yang - University of Michigan, 2004
N Ashraf, D Aycinena, C Martinez… - Working Papers, 2011 - econ.uchile.cl
Abstract While remittance flows to developing countries are very large, it is unknown
whether migrants desire more control over how remittances are used. This research uses a
randomized field experiment to investigate the importance of migrant control over the use ...
X Giné, J Goldberg… - 2010 - papers.ssrn.com
Abstract: How do borrowers respond to improvements in a lender's ability to punish
defaulters? We report the results of a randomized field experiment in rural Malawi that
examines the impact of fingerprinting borrowers in a context where a unique identification ...
[CITATION] International Migration
D Yang - Human Capital, and Entrepreneurship: evidence, 2005
[CITATION] Returns to health: Evidence from exogenous height variation in Indonesia
S Maccini… - V University of Michigan Working Paper, 2005
[CITATION] Financing constraints, economic shocks, and international labor migration: Understanding the departure and return of philippine overseas workers. …
D Yang - Harvard University, dissertation chapter, 2003
C Martinez, D Yang… - … and the Brain Drain, World Bank and …, 2007 - econ.uchile.cl
Abstract In many developing countries, remittance receipts from overseas are important
supplements to household income. How do these remittance flows affect poverty and
inequality in migrants' home areas? To answer this question, we take advantage of ...
D Yang - Retrieved April, 2003 - www-personal.umich.edu
Abstract This study examines the circumstances under which rural households can use
outmigration to cope with negative shocks. In theory, when financial markets are imperfect
and when migration involves a fixed cost, the impact of economic shocks on migration can ...
DC Yang - 2003 - www-personal.umich.edu
Page 1. Essays in Development Economics A thesis presented by Dean Candido Yang to The
Department of Economics in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of
Philosophy in the subject of Economics Harvard University Cambridge, Massachusetts ...
DI Levine… - Unpublished Manuscript, University …, 2006 - www-personal.umich.edu
Life in rural areas of developing countries is prone to many kinds of risk, such as illness or
mortality of household members, crop or other income loss due to natural phenomena
(weather, insect infestations, or fire, for example), and civil conflict. Empirical work in ...
D Yang - University of Michigan. Processed, 2003 - www-personal.umich.edu
Abstract Over fifty developing countries have attempted to reduce smuggling by
implementing preshipment inspection (PSI) programs. I first show that PSI is not associated
with lower overall smuggling rates in two settings: in a cross-country panel, and during the ...
D Yang - Ann Arbor, 2003 - www-personal.umich.edu
El Salvador is highly unusual among developing countries in its number of overseas
migrants relative to the national population: at least one in seven Salvadorans lives outside
of the country, primarily in the United States. Estimated total personal income of ...
D Yang - Ann Arbor: University of Michigan, Gerald R. …, 2003 - www-personal.umich.edu
Abstract This paper sheds light on the dynamics of international labor migration by
examining how domestic and foreign economic shocks affect the departure and return of
overseas Filipino workers. In a time-series of cross-sections of Philippine households, I ...
D Yang - International Handbook on the Economics of …, 2006 - hornbill.dcschool.net
Corruption is pervasive in developing countries and is widely considered to be a major
barrier to economic development. 1 Yet systematic empirical evidence on the effectiveness
of anti-corruption efforts is scarce. The seminal theoretical work of Becker and Stigler ( ...
X Giné, J Goldberg… - 2011 - nber.org
We report the results of a randomized field experiment that examines the credit market
impacts of improvements in a lender's ability to determine borrowers' identities. Improved
personal identification enhances the credibility of a lender's dynamic repayment ...
D Yang - University of Michigan, mimeo, 2004 - fordschool.umich.edu
Abstract Increased enforcement can lead crime to be displaced to alternative lawbreaking
methods. In theory, crime displacement should respond to the size of profits threatened by
enforcement, and enforcement levels on alternative lawbreaking methods. Increased ...
D Yang - The Journal of Economic Perspectives, 2011 - ingentaconnect.com
Abstract: This article is about the economics of migrant remittances sent to developing
countries. I review the overall magnitude of remittances and what current research reveals
about the motivations for migrant remittances and what effects they have. I discuss field ...
X Giné, J Goldberg, D Silverman… - 2011 - cega.berkeley.edu
Abstract A new interest in intertemporal choice is fueled by evidence of non% constant time
discounting and a much better understanding of its theoretical consequences. This paper
reports the results of a field experiment in rural Malawi designed to evaluate, directly, the ...
D Yang - Social Research: An International Quarterly, 2008 - Social Research
This study examines the circumstances under which rural households can use outmigration
to cope with negative shocks. In theory, when financial markets are imperfect and when
migration involves a fixed cost, the impact of economic shocks on migration can depend ...
[CITATION] Coping With Disaster: The Impact of Hurricanes on International Capital Flows, 1979–2001
D Yang - 2005 - … of Michigan, Gerald R. Ford School …
G Raballand, R Thornton, D Yang, J Goldberg… - 2011 - papers.ssrn.com
Abstract: This paper draws lessons from an original randomized experiment in Malawi. In
order to understand why roads in relatively good condition in rural areas may not be used by
buses, a minibus service was subsidized over a six-month period over a distance of 20 ...
Abstract We report a new estimate of the effect of immigration on US native labor market
outcomes that exploits a novel source of exogenous variation in migrant inflows: rainfall
shocks in migration source areas. Spatial and temporal variation in rainfall within Mexico ...
[CITATION] The Impact of Rainfall on Rice Output in Indonesian Districts
DI Levine… - 2006 - Mimeo, University of California- …
[CITATION] Philippine Migrants Remittances and Household Investment Responses to Exchange Rate Shocks
D Yang - 2006 - IMF Working Paper 12325
[CITATION] The Impact of Remittance Fees on Remittance Flows: Evidence from a Field Experiment among Salvadoran Migrants
D Aycinena, C Martinez… - Department of Economics, University of Michigan, …, 2009
[CITATION] Remittances and the Problem of Self Control: A Field Experiment Among Migrants from El Salvador
N Ashraf, D Aycinena, C Martinez… - 2010 - Working Paper, Economics …
[CITATION] sCommitments to Save: A Field Experiment in Rural Malawi. tMimeo
L Brune, X Giné, J Goldberg… - University of Michigan, 2011
[CITATION] «Financial and Informational Barriers to Migration: A Field Experiment in the Philippines,» ongoing study
E Beam, D McKenzie… - University of Michigan and World Bank, 2010
[CITATION] nCan Enforcement Backfire? Crime Displacement in the Context of a Common Customs Reform, oUniversity of Michigan
D Yang - 2004 - mimeo
[CITATION] Remittances and Human Capital Development: Child Schooling and Child Labor in the Origin Households of Overseas Filipino Workers
D Yang - … University, Department of Economics Literature Center …, 2003
Abstract We report a new estimate of the effect of immigration on US labor market outcomes
that exploits a novel source of exogenous variation in migrant inflows: rainfall shocks in
migration source areas. Spatial and temporal variation in rainfall within Mexico generates ...
D Yang - Manuscript, Univ. Michigan, 2004 - 141.211.144.225
Abstract Increased enforcement can lead crime to be displaced to alternative lawbreaking
methods. In theory, crime displacement should respond positively to the size of profits
threatened by enforcement. If enforcement displaces crime towards lawbreaking methods ...
[CITATION] Yuan Jiang (2010), VExporting and firm performance: Chinese Exporters and the Asian Financial CrisisV
AX Park… - Review of Economics and Statistics, forthcoming
[CITATION] Under the weather: health, schooling, and socioeconomics consequences of early-life rainfall. 2007
S Maccini… - University of Michigan, manuscript
D Yang - 2004 - emlab.berkeley.edu
Abstract Millions of households in developing countries receive financial support from family
members working overseas. What impact do overseas economic opportunities have on
household investments—in particular, child human capital and household enterprises? ...
[CITATION] Insurance, Credit and Technology Adoption: A Field Experimental Approach
X Giné… - Documento de trabajo, Banco Mundial, Development …, 2007
X Gin… - Journal of Development Economics, 2009 - ideas.repec.org
Does production risk suppress the demand for credit? We implemented a randomized field
experiment to ask whether provision of insurance against a major source of production risk
induces farmers to take out loans to adopt a new crop technology. The study sample was ...
X Giné, J Goldberg, D Silverman… - 2011 - mfi.uchicago.edu
Abstract Failures to carry out intertemporal plans can have important welfare consequences.
We shed light on the determinants of intertemporal plan revision via a lab&in&the&field
experiment in rural Malawi with large real stakes. We make two key contributions. First, we ...
[CITATION] International migration, human capital and entrepreneurship: Evidence from the Philippines, research programme on international migration and …
D Yang - … Economics Research Group, policy research working …, 2004
X Giné, J Goldberg… - 2009 - siteresources.worldbank.org
Abstract How do borrowers respond to improvements a lender's ability to punish defaulters?
We implemented a randomized field experiment in Malawi examining the impact of
fingerprinting of borrowers, which improves the lender's ability to withhold future loans ...
[CITATION] Is there a link between liberal trade policies and long-run economic growth?: some new evidence
DC Yang - 1995 - Harvard University
J de Melo, R Faini, F Docquier… - The World Bank …, 2007 - ingentaconnect.com
Abstract: Measuring International Skilled Migration: A New Database Controlling for Age of
Entry Michel Beine, Frederic Docquier, and Hillel Rapoport Recent data on international
migration of skilled workers define skilled migrants by education level without ...
J de Melo, R Faini, F Docquier… - The World Bank …, 2007 - ingentaconnect.com
Abstract: Incremental Reform and Distortions in China's Product and Factor Markets Xiaobo
Zhang and Kong-Yam Tan The purpose of economic reform is to reduce distortions and
enhance efficiency. This could happen, for example, if increased interregional competition ...
J Mora, JE Taylor, RH Adams Jr, D Yang… - eldis.org
... 3 Remittances and Poverty in Migrants' Home Areas: Evidence from the Philippines 81 by
Dean Yang and Claudia A. Martínez 4 Beyond Remittances: The Effects of Migration on
Mexican Households 123 by David J. McKenzie CONTENTS Page 2. ...
J de Melo, R Faini, F Docquier… - The World Bank …, 2007 - ingentaconnect.com
Abstract: Child Labor, School Attendance, and Intrahousehold Gender Bias in Brazil Patrick
M. Emerson and Andre Portela Souza An extensive survey data set of Brazilian households
is used to test whether intrahousehold gender bias affects the decisions of mothers and ...
J de Melo, R Faini, F Docquier… - The World Bank …, 2007 - ingentaconnect.com
Abstract: This trend is raising considerable concern among policymakers in developing
countries, wary of having to bear the cost of educating and then losing their most
entrepreneurial and talented workers. The possibility for educated migrants to move ...
D McKenzie… - Handbook of Research Methods in …, 2012 - books.google.com
Individuals and households decide whether or not to migrate–and whether or not to send
remittances ifthey do migrate–with the outcome of these choices depending upon their skills,
wealth, risk preferences, ambition, drive, family ties, and a myriad of other observable and ...
J de Melo, R Faini, F Docquier… - The World Bank …, 2007 - ingentaconnect.com
Abstract: Tracking Poverty Over Time in the Absence of Comparable Consumption Data
David Stifel and Luc Christiaensen Following the endorsement by the international
community of the Millennium Development Goals, there has been an increasing demand ...
D Yang - Journal of Economic Literature, 2011 - ingentaconnect.com
Abstract: The EconLit Abstract of the reviewed work begins “Explores the havoc wrought by
the corruption and violence of the world's economic “gangsters,“and considers their impacts
on economic development. Discusses Mandala Putra Suharto, son of the former ...
CM Alvear… - Working Papers, 2007 - ideas.repec.org
In many developing countries, remittance receipts from overseas are importantsupplements
to household income. How do these remittance flows affect poverty andinequality in
migrants' home areas? To answer this question, we take advantage ofexogenous shocks ...
M DATT… - Where to Spend the Next Million? - cepr.org
Corruption is an endemic problem that is especially prevalent in developing countries. The
impact of corruption on welfare has been a widely debated topic among economists: much
has been said on the second-best option that bribery may present in the face of a rigid and ...
J de Melo, R Faini, F Docquier… - The World Bank …, 2007 - ingentaconnect.com
Abstract: The way out of the quagmire, he argued, was for econometricians to explore larger
regions of" specification space," systematically analyzing the relationship between
assumptions and conclusions. Their evidence: the statistical significance in crosscountry ...
D Yang, X Gine… - 2010 - desktop.spreednews.com
How do borrowers respond to improvements in a lender's ability to punish defaulters? This
paper reports the results of a randomized field experiment in rural Malawi that examines the
impact of fingerprinting borrowers in a context where a unique identification system is ...
[CITATION] Essays in Development Economics (Philippines)
DC Yang - 2003
D Aycinena, C Martinez… - 2010 - 199.169.243.129
Abstract The remittances that migrants send to their home countries are one of the largest
international financial flows to the developing world. A common policy recommendation is
that remittance transaction fees should be lowered. This paper provides the first empirical ...
D McKenzie, C Theoharides… - 2012 - www-personal.umich.edu
Abstract We use an original panel dataset of migrant departures from the Philippines to
identify the responsiveness of migrant numbers and wages to GDP shocks in destination
countries. We find a large, significant response of migrant numbers to GDP shocks at ...
[CITATION] M Business Administration and Business Economics• Marketing• Accounting
D Yang - Journal of Economic Literature, 2011
J de Melo, R Faini, F Docquier… - The World Bank …, 2007 - ingentaconnect.com
Abstract: A basic theoretical result is that if there is a Pareto-efficient allocation of risk across
individual entities (in this case, individual household members) in a risk-sharing
arrangement, individual consumption should not be affected by idiosyncratic income ...
X Giné, J Goldberg… - Innovations in Rural and Agricultural …, 2010 - moodys.com
Identity theft is a common crime the world over. In developing countries, the damage caused
by identity theft and identity fraud goes far beyond the individual victim, however, and
ultimately creates a direct impediment to progress, particularly in credit markets. Recent ...
X Giné, J Goldberg, D Silverman… - 2011 - econweb.umd.edu
Abstract Failures to carry out intertemporal plans can have important welfare consequences.
We shed light on the determinants of intertemporal plan revision via a lab'in'the'field
experiment in rural Malawi with large real stakes. We make two key contributions. First, we ...
[CITATION] Reducing Barriers to Savings in Rural Malawi: A Field Experimental Approach
L Brune, X Giné, J Goldberg… - 2009
D Yang - books.google.com
Abstract The adoption of new agricultural technologies may be discouraged because of their
inherent riskiness. This study implemented a randomized field experiment to ask whether
the provision of insurance against a major source of production risk induces farmers to ...
D Yang - 2011 - 120.107.56.23
Title page for etd-0811111-182404. ...
A Martínez, N Ashraf, D Aycinena… - 2011 - works.bepress.com
Abstract We implemented a randomized field experiment investigating the importance of
migrant control over remittances sent home. We offered migrants from El Salvador bank
accounts in their home country into which they could send remittances, randomly varying ...
J de Melo, R Faini, F Docquier… - The World Bank …, 2007 - ingentaconnect.com
Abstract: Brain Drain in Developing Countries Frederic Docquier, Olivier Lohest, and
Abdeslam Marfouk An original data set on international migration by educational attainment
for 1990 and 2000 is used to analyze the determinants of brain drain from developing ...
[CITATION] International migration, human capital and entrepreneurship: Evidence from the Philippines
D Yang - … de investigación sobre migración internacional y …, 2004
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