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Chauvet Lisa, Gubert Flore, Mercier M., Mesplé-Somps Sandrine. (2015). Migrants' home town associations and local development in Mali. Scandinavian Journal of Economics, 117 (2), p. 686-722. ISSN 0347-0520.

Titre du document
Migrants' home town associations and local development in Mali
Année de publication
2015
Type de document
Article référencé dans le Web of Science WOS:000351671800013
Auteurs
Chauvet Lisa, Gubert Flore, Mercier M., Mesplé-Somps Sandrine
Source
Scandinavian Journal of Economics, 2015, 117 (2), p. 686-722 ISSN 0347-0520
We explore the impact of migrants' Home Town Associations (HTAs) on the provision of public goods in Mali. We combine an original dataset on all the HTAs created by Malian migrants in France from 1981 with census data on public goods in all Malian villages since 1976, and we run double-difference estimations to compare villages with and without an HTA, before and after the creation of the HTAs. We find robust evidence that the provision of schools, health centers, and, to a lesser extent, water amenities has increased significantly faster in villages targeted by an HTA between 1987 and 2009 than in control villages.
Plan de classement
Démographie [108]
Description Géographique
MALI
Localisation
Fonds IRD [F B010064099]
Identifiant IRD
fdi:010064099
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