Do Migrants Improve Governance at Home? Evidence from a Voting Experiment

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Do Migrants Improve Governance at Home? Evidence from a Voting Experiment

creativeworkseries.issn	1564-698X
dc.contributor.author	Batista, Catia
dc.contributor.author	Vicente, Pedro C.
dc.date.accessioned	2013-05-20T20:36:51Z
dc.date.available	2013-05-20T20:36:51Z
dc.date.issued	2011-01-30
dc.description.abstract	Can international migration promote better institutions at home by raising the demand for political accountability? A behavioral measure of the population's desire for better governance was designed to examine this question. A postcard was distributed to households promising that if enough postcards were mailed back, results from a survey module on perceived corruption would be published in the national media. Data from a tailored household survey were used to examine the determinants of this behavioral measure of demand for political accountability (undertaking the costly action of mailing the postcard) and to isolate the positive effect of international emigration using locality-level variation. The estimated effects are robust to the use of instrumental variables, including past migration and macro shocks in the destination countries. The estimated effects can be attributed mainly to migrants who emigrated to countries with better governance, especially migrants who return home.	en
dc.identifier.citation	World Bank Economic Review
dc.identifier.doi	10.1596/13465
dc.identifier.issn	1564-698X
dc.identifier.uri	https://hdl.handle.net/10986/13465
dc.publisher	World Bank
dc.relation.ispartofseries	World Bank Economic Review
dc.rights	CC BY-NC-ND 3.0 IGO
dc.rights.holder	World Bank
dc.rights.uri	http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/igo
dc.subject	brain drain
dc.subject	citizens
dc.subject	countries of origin
dc.subject	democracy
dc.subject	developing countries
dc.subject	economic freedom
dc.subject	economic growth
dc.subject	family structure
dc.subject	Global Poverty
dc.subject	human capital
dc.subject	international migration
dc.subject	international trade
dc.subject	local authorities
dc.subject	migrant
dc.subject	Migrants
dc.subject	political change
dc.subject	public services
dc.subject	remittances
dc.subject	return migration
dc.subject	Social Research
dc.title	Do Migrants Improve Governance at Home? Evidence from a Voting Experiment	en
dc.type	Journal Article	en
dc.type	Article de journal	fr
dc.type	Artículo de revista	es
dspace.entity.type	Publication
okr.date.disclosure	2012-07-30
okr.date.doiregistration	2025-05-06T11:06:18.188157Z
okr.doctype	Journal Article
okr.globalpractice	Social, Urban, Rural and Resilience
okr.globalpractice	Finance and Markets
okr.globalpractice	Governance
okr.globalpractice	Trade and Competitiveness
okr.globalpractice	Health, Nutrition, and Population
okr.journal.nbpages	77-104
okr.language.supported	en
okr.peerreview	Academic Peer Review
okr.region.country	Cape Verde
okr.topic	Communities and Human Settlements::Human Migrations & Resettlements
okr.topic	Culture and Development::Anthropology
okr.topic	Finance and Financial Sector Development::Banks & Banking Reform
okr.topic	Governance::Governance Indicators
okr.topic	Health, Nutrition and Population::Population Policies
okr.topic	International Economics and Trade::International Migration
okr.topic	Social Development::Voluntary and Involuntary Resettlement
okr.volume	25(1)
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