Assessing the poverty impacts of migrants’ remittances using propensity score matching: The case of tonga

Jimenez-Soto, E.V. and Brown, R.P.C. (2012) Assessing the poverty impacts of migrants’ remittances using propensity score matching: The case of tonga. Economic Record, 88 (282). pp. 425-439.

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Abstract

We estimate the impacts of remittances on poverty in Tonga, a poor Pacific island country highly dependent on migrants’ remittances. Using household survey data, we apply Propensity Score Matching (PSM) to estimate without-remittances incomes of migrant households from which counterfactual poverty rates are derived. We compare these with poverty rates from observed income including remittances to gauge their effects on poverty. We find that remittances reduce the incidence of poverty by 31 per cent and depth of poverty by 49 per cent. The results are robust both to alternative specifications of the PSM model and to use of an alternative counterfactual income estimation method

Item Type:	Article
Uncontrolled Keywords:	F22; F24; I32; O15
Author Affiliation:	School of Population Health, University of Queensland, Herston, Queensland, Australia
Subjects:	Social Sciences > Agricultural Economics
Divisions:	General
Depositing User:	Ms K Syamalamba
Date Deposited:	16 Dec 2013 06:03
Last Modified:	16 Dec 2013 06:03
Official URL:	http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1475-4932.2012.00824.x
URI:	http://eprints.icrisat.ac.in/id/eprint/12280

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