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

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 post...

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Main Authors:	Batista, Catia, Vicente, Pedro C.
Format:	Journal Article
Published:	World Bank 2013
Subjects:	brain drain citizens countries of origin democracy developing countries economic freedom economic growth family structure Global Poverty human capital international migration international trade local authorities migrant Migrants political change public services remittances return migration Social Research
Online Access:	http://hdl.handle.net/10986/13465

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spelling	okr-10986-134652021-04-23T14:03:08Z Do Migrants Improve Governance at Home? Evidence from a Voting Experiment Batista, Catia Vicente, Pedro C. brain drain citizens countries of origin democracy developing countries economic freedom economic growth family structure Global Poverty human capital international migration international trade local authorities migrant Migrants political change public services remittances return migration Social Research 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. 2013-05-20T20:36:51Z 2013-05-20T20:36:51Z 2011-01-30 Journal Article World Bank Economic Review 1564-698X http://hdl.handle.net/10986/13465 World Bank Economic Review;25(1) CC BY-NC-ND 3.0 IGO http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/igo World Bank World Bank Journal Article Cape Verde
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description	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.
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author	Batista, Catia Vicente, Pedro C.
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title	Do Migrants Improve Governance at Home? Evidence from a Voting Experiment
title_short	Do Migrants Improve Governance at Home? Evidence from a Voting Experiment
title_full	Do Migrants Improve Governance at Home? Evidence from a Voting Experiment
title_fullStr	Do Migrants Improve Governance at Home? Evidence from a Voting Experiment
title_full_unstemmed	Do Migrants Improve Governance at Home? Evidence from a Voting Experiment
title_sort	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

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