Zhu, Y.; Wu, Z.; Peng, L.; Sheng, L. - In: Applied Economics 46 (2014) 12, pp. 1312-1322
We focus on the impact of migrants' remittances on consumption patterns in China. Using a large homogenous sample of rural households surveyed in 2001 and 2004, we find that remittances are spent on nonhousing consumption expenditures at the margin, virtually dollar-for-dollar, when we...