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Abstract：
Remittances received by households from international migrants are of interest in an increasing number of microeconomic analyses. Making use of novel data, we measure misreporting of remittances sent by migrants in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) to remittance recipients in the Philippines. We obtained administrative transaction data from a sample of Filipino migrants who were clients of a popular money transfer operator (MTO). We then surveyed these migrants as well as their primary remittance recipients about the same remittance flows. Migrant-reported remittances are only 6% lower than MTO administrative records, and we cannot reject their equality. A custom smartphone app designed to facilitate migrant remittance reporting does not help raise reporting accuracy. Recipient-reported remittances are 23% lower than migrant reports on average. Recipients under-report even more when they receive remittances less frequently and when remittances make up a lower share of household income.
摘要：
越来越多的微观经济分析对家庭从国际移民那里收到的汇款感兴趣。利用新颖的数据，我们衡量阿拉伯联合酋长国(UAE)移民向菲律宾汇款收款人汇款的误报.我们从菲律宾移民的样本中获得了行政交易数据，这些移民是受欢迎的汇款运营商（MTO）的客户。然后，我们对这些移民以及他们的主要汇款接收者进行了调查，了解相同的汇款流量。移民报告的汇款仅比MTO行政记录低6%，我们不能拒绝他们的平等。旨在促进移民汇款报告的自定义智能手机应用程序无助于提高报告准确性。收款人报告的汇款平均比移民报告低23%。当收款人收到汇款的频率较低，汇款在家庭收入中所占份额较低时，他们的报告就更少。
