Remittance Receipt and Business Ownership in the Dominican Republic

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Remittances and Economic Growth: Larger Impacts in Smaller Countries? (2014, background): “Remittances can promote this growth by providing additional foreign exchange and financing business investment (Amuedo-Dorantes & Pozo, 2006; Woodruff & Zenteno, 2007).”
Evaluating the Economic Impact of International Remittances On Developing Countries Using Household Surveys: A Literature Review (2011, methodology): “In an effort to use what seems like a more exogenous instrumental variable than that used by Acosta (2007), Amuedo-Dorantes and Pozo (2006a) use the number of Western Union offices in a (Mexican) state to instrument for the receipt of remittances.”
The Impacts of International Migration on Remaining Household Members: Omnibus Results from a Migration Lottery Program (2009, background): “For example, Amuedo-Dorantes and Pozo (2006a) assume that the number of Western Union branches in a state in Mexico affects labor supply only through current migration, when these branches are likely to have been established as the result of factors that have driven migration historically,…”