Assessing the poverty impacts of migrants' remittances using propensity score matching: the case of Tonga

Jimenez-Soto, Eliana V. and Brown, Richard P. C. (2012) Assessing the poverty impacts of migrants' remittances using propensity score matching: the case of Tonga. Economic Record, 88 282: 425-439.


Author Jimenez-Soto, Eliana V.
Brown, Richard P. C.
Title Assessing the poverty impacts of migrants' remittances using propensity score matching: the case of Tonga
Journal name Economic Record  (ERA 2012 Listed)    (ERA 2010 Rank A)   Check publisher's open access policy
Publication date 2012-09
Sub-type Article
DOI 10.1111/j.1475-4932.2012.00824.x
Volume number 88
Issue number 282
ISSN 0013-0249; 1475-4932
Start page 425
End page 439
Total pages 15
Place of publication Richmond, VIC, Australia
Publisher Wiley-Blackwell Publishing Asia
Collection year 2013
Language eng
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.
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