This paper investigates the role of gender in remittance behavior among
migrants using data drawn from the 2004 Vietnam Migration Survey. The gender
dimension to remittance behavior is not an issue that has featured strongly in
the existing literature and our findings thus contain novel appeal. In addition,
we use estimates from both homoscedastic and heteroscedastic tobit models to
decompose the observed gender differences in remittances into treatment and
endowment components. The paper finds little evidence that gender differences
in remittances are attributable to behavioral differences between men and
women. Instead, the empirical results show that endowment differences, such
as gender differences in household head status and labor market earnings, are
more important in explaining the overall gender difference in the remittance level.