GENDER DIFFERENCES IN REMITTANCE BEHAVIOR: EVIDENCE FROM VIETNAM

Yoko Niimi and Barry Reilly

The Singapore Economic Review (SER), 2011, vol. 56, issue 02, 215-237

Abstract: 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.

Keywords: Gender; internal migration; remittances; Vietnam; J16; J61 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2011
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DOI: 10.1142/S0217590811004237

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