Do Remittances Diminish Social Violence?
首次建立模型研究汇款与社会暴力的关系，发现汇款通过提高劳动平均产品来减少暴力，并用谋杀率数据验证了这一结论。
This paper represents the first attempt to formalise the relationship between remittances and social violence by developing a model that predicts that migrants’ remittances lead to the reduction of social violence in the recipient economy under the condition that remittances increase the average product of labour. Using homicide data as an indicator of social violence, we tested our model’s prediction. Controlling for the endogeneity problem with appropriate instruments, we found that remittances tend to reduce social violence. We performed sensitivity analysis on remittances in the empirical specification and found it robust with an unchanged negative sign.