01648cas a2200265 a 4500 AALejournalIMF005352 230101c9999 xx r poo 0 0eng d 5.00 USD 9781451870886 1018-5941 BD-DhAAL BD-DhAAL Melkonyan, Tigran. Garbage In, Gospel Out? : Controlling for the Underreporting of Remittances / Tigran Melkonyan, David Grigorian, J. Scott Shonkwiler. Washington, D.C. : International Monetary Fund, 2008. 1 online resource (19 pages) IMF Working Papers <strong>Off-Campus Access:</strong> No User ID or Password Required <strong>On-Campus Access:</strong> No User ID or Password Required Electronic access restricted to authorized BRAC University faculty, staff and students Empirical studies that use self-reported data on remittances to measure the latter's impact on microeconomic incentives mostly ignore the potential errors associated with reporting/measurement issues. An econometric procedure to control for these errors is developed and applied to household-level data from Armenia. We find evidence of systematic under-reporting of remittances. After controlling for this, we find a strong negative impact of remittances on incentives to work. Mode of access: Internet Grigorian, David. Shonkwiler, J. Scott. IMF Working Papers; Working Paper ; No. 2008/230 Full text available on IMF http://elibrary.imf.org/view/journals/001/2008/230/001.2008.issue-230-en.xml IMF e-Library