ILO pub-WEP pub. Working paper on the process of income transfers between and within households in Kenya and between … geographically separated units of the extended family - presents an econometrics study of the remittance function and income …

this is primarily a consequence of rising real per capita income, which more than doubled over the same period. We … investigate this hypothesis empirically by instrumenting for local area income with time-series variation in global oil prices … an increase in income on health expenditures. Our central estimate is an income elasticity of 0.7, with an elasticity of …