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Jessica S. Hagen-Zanker
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Position: ESPP Fellow, Programme
manager SPF/SPD
Email address: jessica.hagenzanker@governance.unimaas.nl
Educational background
Jessica Hagen-Zanker graduated with a master in International Economics at Maastricht University in August 2004, completing the track Global Development and Technology. Her thesis is on population growth and economic development. Jessica also did an internship at the International Labour Office in Geneva, in the social protection sector. Since August 2004 she has been working as researcher and as the SPF and SPP program co-ordinator. Since September 2005 Jessica is member of the first cohort of the ESPP program.
Research Interest:
Jessica's
research interest lies in migration.
Together with Mirtha Muniz Castillo
she wrote a paper on remittances in
El Salvador. For her PhD
dissertation she will develop this
topic further by looking at
migration as a social protection
strategy. A risky environment,
market failures and an
under-developed social protection
system often lead to migration of
one ore more family members, who
then send remittances home. Whether
migration makes sense as a migration
strategy will be analysed by looking
at the causes, costs and effects of
migration and the effect of
remittances on household income. The
research question will be completed
by writing a number of papers using
the Living Standards Measurement
Survey panel data for Albania.
The first paper, co-authored
with Melissa Siegel, compares the
motives of Albanian and Moldovan
migrants when sending remittances.
We find clear evidence for
self-insurance in Albania. We also
find significant results for the
bequest motive and altruism. The
empirical paper, as well as an
extensive review of the literature
on the determinants of remittances,
can be downloaded below. Comments
are very welcome.
Publications
Hagen-Zanker, Jessica and
Siegel, Melissa (2007) The
determinants of remittances: A
comparison between Albania and
Moldova, Working paper
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Hagen-Zanker, Jessica and Siegel,
Melissa (2007) The determinants of
remittances: A review of the
literature, Working paper
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Hagen-Zanker, Jessica and Muniz Castillo, Mirtha (2005) Remittances and human development: The case of El Salvador, Maastricht Graduate School of Governance, Maastricht, The Netherlands.
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Zanker, Jessica S. (2004) Population growth and economic development, Maastricht University, Maastricht, the Netherlands. Download (acrobat reader document) >>
Zanker, Jessica S. (2003) A macroeconomic framework for the Luxembourg social budget model, International Labour Organisation, Geneva, Switzerland.
Download Curriculum Vitae (acrobat reader document) >>
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