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What Can We Learn about Financial Access from U.S. Immigrants? The Role of Country of Origin Institutions and Immigrant Beliefs

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dc.creator Osili, Una Okonkwo
dc.creator Paulson, Anna
dc.date 2012-03-30T07:12:37Z
dc.date 2012-03-30T07:12:37Z
dc.date 2008-12-01
dc.date.accessioned 2023-02-18T19:41:18Z
dc.date.available 2023-02-18T19:41:18Z
dc.identifier World Bank Economic Review
dc.identifier 1564-698X
dc.identifier http://hdl.handle.net/10986/4487
dc.identifier.uri http://localhost:8080/xmlui/handle/CUHPOERS/249972
dc.description Immigrants from countries with more effective institutions are more likely than other immigrants to have a relationship with a bank and to use formal financial markets more extensively. The evidence that a country's institutional environment shapes beliefs—and by extension the use of financial services—provides support for policies that focus on institutional reforms in promoting financial access. After holding wealth, education, and other factors constant, the impact of institutional quality in the country of origin affects the financial market participation of all immigrant groups except those who have lived in the United States for more than 28 years. These findings are robust to alternative measures of institutional effectiveness, to controlling for additional country of origin characteristics, and to various methods for addressing potential biases caused by immigrant self-selection.
dc.publisher World Bank
dc.rights CC BY-NC-ND 3.0 IGO
dc.rights http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/igo
dc.rights World Bank
dc.subject biases
dc.subject checking account
dc.subject financial access
dc.subject financial market
dc.subject financial services
dc.subject formal financial markets
dc.subject households
dc.subject institutional reforms
dc.subject savings
dc.subject stock markets
dc.title What Can We Learn about Financial Access from U.S. Immigrants? The Role of Country of Origin Institutions and Immigrant Beliefs
dc.type Journal Article
dc.type Journal Article
dc.coverage United States


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