Lauren Duquette-Rury
Collective Remittances and Transnational Coproduction: the 3 × 1 Program for Migrants and Household Access to Public Goods in Mexico
migrant hometown associations htas mobilizing collective remittances improve social welfare countries origin paper assesses effect transnational coproduction public goods migrants places origin studying 3 1 program migrants 3 1 program national social spending program mexican local state federal government matches htas collective remittances improve public services crossborder publicprivate partnerships statistical analysis across municipalities participate 3 1 program shows coproduction improves citizens access public sanitation drainage water although electricity moreover negative statistically significant interaction term 3 1 program expenditures family remittances reveals substitution effect presence transnational coproduction migrant households less likely improve public goods using family remittance resources absence 3 1 program participation continue improve hometowns family remittances research offers theoretical mechanism supporting empirical evidence important kind intermediary institution improving social welfare migrant places origin