Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/170531 
Year of Publication: 
2017
Series/Report no.: 
Economics Discussion Papers No. 2017-86
Publisher: 
Kiel Institute for the World Economy (IfW), Kiel
Abstract: 
This paper analyzes the determinants of international remittances received during the post electoral crisis in Côte d'Ivoire, using data collected 5 months after the end of the conflict. The author finds that the crisis has been a means of mobilizing social capital and demonstrating altruistic and insurance behaviors beyond the bounds of kinship. Transfers are mainly sent for consumption purpose, but amounts transferred for small investments and human capital are higher. Moreover, the propensity to transfer higher amounts decreases when emigration occurred after the November 2004 violent events. Altruism resists to time.
Subjects: 
remittances
Côte d'Ivoire
post electoral conflict
Sub-Saharan Africa
migration
JEL: 
F22
F24
O15
Creative Commons License: 
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Document Type: 
Working Paper

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