Do remittances improve income inequality? An instrumental variable quantile analysis of the Kenyan case

Bang, James T.; Mitra, Aniruddha; Wunnava, Phanindra V.

doi:10.1016/j.econmod.2016.04.004

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“…The use of quantile regression for similar purpose is well documented (Koenker, ). We apply the quantile regression to the model of household expenditure adopted from Bang et al., and specified as follows;

\begin{matrix} L n E x p p c_{i} & = {italicβ}_{0} + {italicβ}_{1} R e m i t t a n c e s_{i} + {italicβ}_{2} A g e_{i} + {italicβ}_{3} A g e_{i}^{2} + {italicβ}_{4} E d u c a t i o n_{i} + {italicβ}_{5} H H s i z e_{i} \\ + {italicβ}_{6} F e m a l e H e a d_{i} + {italicβ}_{7} U r b a n_{i} + \sum_{j} δ_{j} O c c u p a t i o n_{italicij} + \sum_{s} γ_{s} R e g i o n_{italicis} + {italicε}_{i} \end{matrix}

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“…The work of Bang et al. () remains a novelty in this area of research due to the application of instrumental variable quantile regression analysis to investigate the impact of remittances on income inequality. Based on the Kenyan sample, the results show a clear support to the hypothesis that remittances reduce poverty and inequality.…”

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“…Out of this number, there were 1,051 households who did not receive any form of remittance (internal or international) and 902 households that received either internal or international remittance. The remittance variable in this analysis is a dummy variable capturing whether a household received remittance or not, and not based on the quantity of remittances received, as the quantity of remittance is known to be noisy and prone to measurement error (see Bang et al., ). The idea is that much of the variations in remittances derive just from having access to remittances and not on the quantitative amount of remittances received.…”

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“…As Bang et al. () observed, there is more agreement than disagreement with regard to the impact of remittances on growth and poverty; most of the evidence suggesting that remittances enhance growth and reduce poverty. Studies such as Catrinescu et al., () and Feeny et al., () support the poverty reduction hypothesis by emphasising that remittances stimulate financial development.…”

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“…Bang et al. () was the first to contribute to the debate about the distributional impact of remittances in sub‐Saharan Africa, using these surveys. They concluded, on the basis of the Kenyan sample, that remittances reduce income inequality among households through their more than proportionate income enhancement for households in the lowest quantile of income distribution.…”

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confidence: 99%

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\begin{matrix} L n E x p p c_{i} & = {italicβ}_{0} + {italicβ}_{1} R e m i t t a n c e s_{i} + {italicβ}_{2} A g e_{i} + {italicβ}_{3} A g e_{i}^{2} + {italicβ}_{4} E d u c a t i o n_{i} + {italicβ}_{5} H H s i z e_{i} \\ + {italicβ}_{6} F e m a l e H e a d_{i} + {italicβ}_{7} U r b a n_{i} + \sum_{j} δ_{j} O c c u p a t i o n_{italicij} + \sum_{s} γ_{s} R e g i o n_{italicis} + {italicε}_{i} \end{matrix}

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Do remittances improve income inequality? An instrumental variable quantile analysis of the Kenyan case

Cited by 101 publications

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Do remittances improve income inequality? An instrumental variable quantile analysis of the Senegalese case

Do remittances improve income inequality? An instrumental variable quantile analysis of the Senegalese case

Social capital, gender‐based resilience, and well‐being among urban and rural households in Togo

Trade‐offs between labour migration and agricultural productivity: Evidence from smallholder wheat systems in Nepal

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