Directing remittances to education with soft and hard commitments : evidence from a lab-in-the-field experiment and new product take-up among Filipino migrants in Rome (English)

This paper tests how migrants' willingness to remit changes when given the ability to direct remittances to educational purposes using different forms of commitment. Variants of a dictator game in a lab-in-the-field experiment with Filipino migrants in Rome are used to examine remitting behavior under varying degrees of commitment. These range from the soft commitment of simply labeling remittances as being for education, to the hard commitment of...
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De Arcangelis, Giuseppe; Joxhe, Majlinda; Mckenzie,David J.; Tiongson,Erwin H. R.; Yang,Dean.

Directing remittances to education with soft and hard commitments : evidence from a lab-in-the-field experiment and new product take-up among Filipino migrants in Rome (English). Policy Research working paper ; no. WPS 6896 Washington, DC: World Bank Group. http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/166001468295535713

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